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Finally a reason to leave Harvard and head toward Amherst. Wait a second? But seriously, don't miss this. Bob Dylan and Natalie Merchant are putting on a concert, and as far as any one can tell, Bob may not hang in there for that much longer. Mullins Center, Amherst...
Friday evening, in the first match of the tournament, the Crimson won easily over the United States Merchant Marine Academy in three straight games...
...Friday evening, in the first match of the tournament, the Crimson won easily over the United States Merchant Marine Academy in three straight games...
Mere prattle without practice, say the incensed Stratfordians, who form the vast mainstream. "The idea that you have to go to Oxford to be a great writer is snobbish," says Jonathan Bate, author of The Genius of Shakespeare. Bate points out that Shakespeare, as the son of a local merchant and town official, would almost certainly have attended the Stratford Free School. And Elizabethan grammar schools offered a formidable education in Latin, including oratory and letter writing in the style of characters from classical myth and history. Students also had to be able to expand and embellish on existing literary...
...Apparently years of accolades, knighting ceremonies and Academy Awards have left Tony a little bitter. In an interview with the British tabloid News of the World, Hopkins announced he was "getting out of this ridiculous business," adding that "acting is bad for the mental health." Once a mainstay of Merchant-Ivory productions, Hopkins has more recently appeared in such claptrap as the critically reviled Meet Joe Black. He says his project Titus Andronicus, currently filming in Rome, will be his last (his publicist confirmed his words but expressed hope that he would change his mind). In the interview Hopkins also...