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...inside and outside the house worsen, allowing a view of everyone’s quirkier side, and even bringing in an unexpected guest: Mike, a man of ambiguous professions (Rory N. Kulz ’08) “Dinner” is a relatively new play, written by Moira Buffini, and commissioned by the National Theater in London in 2002. Videt writes in an e-mail that she chose the play for “many of its nontrivial themes about marriage, absent children, consumption (of life, of experience, of food, of products), and social stereotypes...
...Both sides of the debate were quick to decry the FDA's ruling as political. "Clearly in this case corners were cut," says Family Research Council health policy analyst Moira Gaul, claiming the FDA overlooked what her group calls a lack of safety evidence. Backers of Plan B, on the other hand, were angered by the FDA's age restrictions on the drug: patients under 18 must still have a prescription to get the drug, even though the FDA's own scientific advisers never recommended such a policy. "They have been playing politics with this issue for 40 months," says...
...ballet slippers? Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's fevered parable of ballet's uneasy kinship of music and dance turned an art-business into a battlefield of egos, lusts and near demonic possessiveness. It established Anton Walbrook as the Svengali of his day and made a star of Moira Shearer...
...thousands of people across the country on Friday, which were loosely organized through heated call-in radio shows. Outside the Parliament in Dublin, demonstrators blocked traffic and held white flowers to show compassion for the victims of sexual abuse. But they also seethed with frustration. "It's ridiculous," said Moira Gorman, 35, from Dublin. "If it's finance, [the government] acts quickly. If it's children, they take their time." The groundswell of outrage put pressure on the nine-year-old coalition led by Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. Later on Friday the Parliament passed the new statutory-rape law (whose...
...Staff writer Moira G. Weigel can be reached at weigel@fas.harvard.edu...