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...Shakespeare's day, "groundlings" referred to the unruly rabble who crowded into the front pit of the Globe Theater. In Groundlings, author Seth Harrington '00 accuses their modern-day equivalents of living vicariously and irresponsibly through the actors' lives. It's a transgression that must be punished: over the course of this one-act play, Shakespeare's Hamlet finally receives the opportunity to get revenge upon its audience...
Fassbinder remarked in 1980 that Berlin Alexanderplatz, while offering an insight into the social psychology leading up to the Second World War, simultaneously issues a warning to complacent audiences. He maintains that fascist ideas may take root just as easily in post-1945 democracies, born out of modern-day attitudes, traumas and decadence no different from those which Franz Biberkopf faced in 1920s Germany. Despite the minor flaws and over-exuberances of his technique, Fassbinder succeeds in encapsulating the attitudes and psychologies of the Weimar Republic in the life of a single common man. Reaching even greater brilliance, he then...
Americans distrust the cavalierism of modern-day health care and fear invasive medical intervention to the bitter end, or a lingering, undignified death while hooked up to life-prolonging technologies. A Gallup Poll conducted last April found that 75 percent of Americans believe that doctors should be allowed to end the lives of terminally ill patients by painless means if the patient requests it. Two appeals cases on this issue made it to the U.S. Supreme Court this summer; the Court ruled that there was not a constitutional right to receive physician aid-in-dying, thus effectively turning the issue...
...only the single-minded and often heroic intervention of the Dutch branch of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) that prevented Sudan's epidemic of kala-azar from turning into a modern-day version of the black death, which ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. MSF, founded by French doctors in the early 1970s, not only was largely responsible for bringing the epidemic under control but in the process also developed new procedures for treating the disease under extremely harsh conditions...
...important lesson in the corporate philosophy of the aptly named firm. Shaman is a South San Francisco company founded in 1989 on the concept that traditional healing methods of shamans, or indigenous medicine men, can serve as the basis for modern-day drug development...