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...recognize the talent level of the team.” And not only are the Harvard views of cheerleading usually incorrect, the views exacerbated by pop-culture tend to be false as well. Catty competition à la “Bring It On” does not occur in the real world of college cheerleading; team members say that, in general, the competition is friendly. Now that Harvard’s cheerleading team’s presence is being felt, Capasso says she hopes to open new doors for an entire segment of the student-athlete population. FM hopes...
There is very little to be grateful for in this production. Although the first half manages to produce a few laughs, as when the on-stage oral sex occurs, it is not quite funny enough to adequately entertain. The attempts at humor that occur during the first act do not sufficiently prepare the audience for the less entertaining second half, which is drier and tries harder to make its point after an hour and a half has already been spent producing a farce. One of the characters describes herself as “restless” in her marriage?...
Despite their seeming frequency in recent years, shooting rampages on college campus do not occur on a regular or daily basis. What does occur on a daily basis is the interaction between students and faculty. Bringing guns into this equation is unwise in the extreme. Fear of random attack from a single deranged student is one thing, and a dormitory full of potential gun-owners is entirely another. The knowledge that a disturbed classmate or a creepy professor may have a gun in his or her desk would completely contort relationships—everything would be tinged with a faint...
...long name indicates what a big deal it was to add American texts to the canon, which did not really occur until after WWII. It reflects a longstanding tension between the study of literature as something treated objectively (language) and its study as something subjective and inspired (Literature with a capital L). Since the creation of English departments in the late 19th century, “pedants” or “scholars” have shared duties with “dilettantes” or “critics”—often angrily. Questions...
...charged with protecting federal whistle-blowers tells TIME he's got additional cases coming down the runway that could do just that. And the FAA warns that sloppy maintenance work - like that which resulted in the grounding of more than 3,000 American Airlines flights last week - could occur through the end of June as the FAA wraps up a two-phase inspection process...