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Harvard football linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski was honored as the recipient of the 54th Nils V. "Swede" Nelson Award yesterday, an accolade presented annually to the "best, most academically talented" college football player in New England...
...Women Beware Women opens with the recent nuptials of Leantio (Fred Hood '02) and his new bride Bianca (Annalise Nelson '02). Unfortunately, in the third week of their marriage, Bianca is seen by the lascivious Duke of Florence (Dan Hughes '01), who then orchestrates a meeting and rapes her. This spirals into an extremely complicated plot mired in incest, murder...
Despite some sweet moments and sincere performances, the show fails to register. One problem is that adapter Richard Nelson has moved the pivot of the story--a song that stirs memories in Gabriel's wife (Brown) of a long-dead boy who once loved her--to earlier in the evening, thus throwing off the rhythm of the piece. (Another change: she sings the song rather than hears it.) What's more, Walken seems blandly disengaged as Gabriel, missing the psychological tension, singing indifferently and barely hinting at an Irish accent. Walken used to be a Broadway dancer, but here...
...Nelson Mandela, definitely. And I also think Mother Theresa. She just gave so much to the world. And unfortunately, there are not too many people like her anymore...
...Wireless phone subscription over the last especially three to four years has been much more democratic than it had been previously," says Jeffrey C. Nelson, spokesperson for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. "The social scientists are suggesting that $40 to $50 per month is psychologically a break point where the general public is much more likely to subscribe...