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Others give the credit to Sondheim himself. Director Nunn compares the lyricist's poetic gift and humanism to Shakespeare's. Both men, he says, are "fascinated with the contradictions of human beings, with their complexities and ambiguities. As with Shakespeare, there's heightened poetic expression in Sondheim, but when you dig into it, you find it's in touch with something real." The song "Send in the Clowns" contains not just pretty lyrics, but musings perfectly pitched for the character of Desirée, a glamorous actress pushing 40 and facing what may be her last chance for love...
...Maldives' ruler since 1978, in a landmark election last October. In 1991, Nasheed was named an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, a victim of repeated government crackdowns on dissidents. Though he is tight-lipped about the particulars of his own ordeal, testimony from many other detainees tells of men dunked into the sea, forced to eat glass, kept in solitary confinement or left exposed in the sun for days, or doused in molasses and tied to palm trees, at the mercy of the inevitable insect swarm. "It was God's will that I didn't die," says Nasheed...
...political science graduate student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, objected to calling Tillman a war hero, pointing out in an essay that this “anti-hero” had not died defending his own country from invasion but had instead volunteered to kill other men in theirs...
...Harvard track and field team found itself one in a deep pool of teams at the three-day 2009 ECAC/IC4A Championships in Princeton, N.J. When the dust settled yesterday, the women’s side held on to 20th—out of 57—while the men settled for 22nd—out of 52. “It was a good weekend for us,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “It’s always good to get back after the emotional and competitive Ivy League Championships.” And though...
...suggest that we stop whining and start walking is fine during daylight hours. But we constantly receive Community Advisories from the Harvard University Police Department that alert us to the rising rates of violent crime against both men and women in the area. Therefore, walking to and from the Quad through Cambridge Common, an area recognized as dangerous, is not a safe option at night. Already, the current nighttime shuttle schedule is less than ideal...