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...Stoppard's new play, Rock 'n' Roll, opening on Broadway Nov. 4, is about Czechoslovakia in the years between the 1968 Soviet crackdown and the 1989 Velvet Revolution - set against the backdrop of the rebel rock music of the era. The playwright talked with TIME's Richard Zoglin about the play, his tastes in rock and other matters. Excerpts...
...must demand that our representatives do too. Members of Congress can work to more effectively define funding priorities while realizing that their efforts affect more than just government agencies, corporations and re-election opportunities. We are not dealing with numbers here; we are dealing with people's lives. Stefan N. Miller, BALTIMORE...
...dyspeptic old age. Francisco Pradilla's tempestuous 1877 painting of a grieving Queen Juana la Loca is perhaps the most striking of the exhibition's vast historical works. Their general heaviness is relieved in the last two galleries by the delightful impressionistic works of Mariano Fortuny and Joaquín Sorolla, including the latter's sun-dappled Young Boys on the Beach. The show also boasts a dozen drawings by Goya, including the phantasmagoric Winged Bull, which the museum bought at auction last year for $2.6 million...
...created a program for his first problem set that enables students to put earrings, masks, and gaudy makeup on the course instructor, David J. Malan ’99. Friends want Gadish to expand the program to other professors, like Economics guru Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw. “I’m definitely considering it,” Gadish says. His program was made using Scratch, a computer programming language designed for children that Malan chose to ease students into computer science. “I’ve always heard that CS 50 is really...
...N. Kathy Lin ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...