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Friday night performances by the University Choir and the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Bach's "B Minor Mass" drew large and appreciative crowds...
...even though their lawyer, Steven Passarello argued that Shannon was more than able to decide for herself whether she wanted to follow the sect's doctrine or seek medical help. William Haberstroh, the prosecuting attorney, countered that a life-or-death situation demanded parental intervention even for a mature minor. The judge's instruction that the case was one of law, not of religion, practically sealed the verdict. It took less than two hours for the jury to find the couple guilty...
...Coming from the Senate committee investigating the campaign fund-raising scandal, it directed what's left of the Dole campaign to hand over all documents connected to a familiar cast of 46 political donors and suitors. As the subpoena was faxed around Washington last week, it set off a minor panic among lobbyists and fund raisers worried about who might be called to testify. But their fretting was misplaced: the name of the G.O.P.'s most generous foreign benefactor wasn't even on the list...
Several of the minor players shine in their roles. Georgia Shao-Chi Lee '98 is consistently likable, sensual and amusing as Moon Beauty, the prostitute who takes in Hawk and Little Jade. Chan is quite good as the tortured, Byronic Wang Kuilong. Li, as Chief Yang, wavers between a delightfully arrogant rendition of the part (as he struts about unfolding and snapping shut a large gold fan) and a problematic tendency to stumble over his lines. And Patrick Wang, who plays several small parts--most notably Grandpa Guo, the New Park gardener who first finds Hawk and tells...
...STOPPARD'S ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE Dead is all about reversing expectations. Stoppard brings the two most minor characters from Hamlet to the forefront of his play and explores the comedic--and occasionally existential--results of looking at life from their point of view. The current production at the Leverett Old Library seeks to place the audience in that very same position: in the empty room that constitutes the show's set, the two characters seem to be speaking not only to each other, but to an audience who can sympathize with their confused plight. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are always...