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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...troubles lead him from a happy spring day in the countryside with his sweetheart Anne Trulove (Eva E.M. Schlitz ’09) to a climactic midnight cemetery scene and, eventually, to an insane asylum. Along the way stops are made in a brothel owned by Mother Goose and at Tom’s wedding to Baba the Turk (Sofia M. Selowsky ’12), London’s most renowned bearded lady.While Auden’s libretto for the most part lacked the moroseness so typical of other renderings of the Faust legend, it stayed true...

Author: By Diego H. Nunez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Rake's Progress' Progressive | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

Fast Facts: • Raised in southern Florida by his mother and his stepfather, who was a judge. As a high school student, Kerlikowske worked as a crime scene photographer on the weekends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gil Kerlikowske: Obama's New Drug Czar | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...female friends had converged on an ideal type. Emaciated and elusive: the Humanities Heartbreak. By senior year, everyone was getting tired of this—even our parents. “The next time you see a skinny, neurotic boy,” my friend’s mother advised, “don’t date him.” Could people like us find love outside the humanities? To freshmen, this question may seem ludicrous. But wait until you actually have a concentration. You will be forced to learn the habits of your discipline: the code words...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dating Outside the Humanities | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...portions that feature Leavitt occur on the same days as the other perspectives, but nine years before). Leavitt is an American soldier in South Korea who is devoted to his wife (read: does not have sex with prostitutes), and, ultimately, gives his life to protect a young Korean mother and her blind child from American fire. Lark and Termite are half-siblings through their mother, who dies before the narrative begins. Though 17, and just discovering her own sexuality for the first time, Lark is completely devoted to Termite’s care. She decides not to go to college...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...their similarities, the two women are not personally close and hail from very different backgrounds. Snowe, who turns 62 later this month, was orphaned at the age of 9 when her father, a Greek immigrant cook, died of a heart attack a year after her mother died of cancer. Another tragedy brought her to elective office in 1973, when she filled the seat in Maine's house of representatives that was left vacant by the death of her husband in a car accident. Her second husband, John McKernan, was a colleague of hers in both the legislature and U.S. House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Maine's GOP Senators Are Key to Obama's Agenda | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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