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Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. The latest public critic of increasingly under-fire Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is none other than that most unloved of modern-day diplomats -- former U.N. secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali. According to the New York Times, in his new book, "Unvanquished: A U.S.-U.N. Saga," the Egyptian envoy savages Albright's diplomatic abilities. "She seemed to assume," he wrote, "that her mere assertion of a U.S. policy should be sufficient to achieve the support of other nations," and tended to lecture foreign leaders rather than engage in the "difficult diplomatic work...
Pirandello's Henry IV tells of a modern-day nobleman (David Skeist '02) who has, for the last 20 years, believed himself to be Emperor Henry IV of Germany. As the play opens, his one-time paramour Matilda (Karin Alexander '02) comes to visit "Henry" in his grotesquely medieval living-space. She brings her friend Baron Belcredi (Tom Price '02), her daughter Frida (Marianne Cook '02) and a psychiatrist (Matthew Carlson) who intends to study "Henry" and attempt to cure him. Matilda and Belcredi explain the scenario to the doctor and to us before entering Henry's masquerade along with...
Pirandello's Henry IV tells of a modern-day nobleman (David Skeist '02) who has, for the last 20 years, believed himself to be Emperor Henry IV of Germany. As the play opens, his one-time paramour Matilda (Karin Alexander '02) comes to visit "Henry" in his grotesquely medieval living-space. She brings her friend Baron Belcredi (Tom Price '02), her daughter Frida (Marianne Cook '02) and a psychiatrist (Matthew Carlson) who intends to study "Henry" and attempt to cure him. Matilda and Belcredi explain the scenario to the doctor and to us before entering Henry's masquerade along with...
...healthy heterosexual businesswoman. I can be as feminine as Marilyn Monroe, and I can be as energized as Jackie Chan. I am blessed with lots of estrogen and testosterone! I think of myself as a modern-day warrior. YVONNE SIET Hong Kong...
...earliest days of Lowell House, then Master Julian Lowell Coolidge faced a predicament that many of his modern-day Master counterparts say they can scarcely imagine--a vacancy problem...