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...illustrate the necessity of negotiations and peacekeeping and also consult the Oracle of Delphi. But while maintaining that spirit of conscientious pacifism, “Lysistrata” snidely pokes fun at modern gender stereotypes. “Did your wife redo the den into a living room and paint it eggshell?” one Athenian gripes to another. “And what the fuck is a chocolate fountain?” While HRDC’s “Lysistrata” often succumbs to the slapstick humor, sexual obscenities, and explicit double-entendres that are inevitable...
...villains in this saga are not sorry. Almost 70 years ago, C.S. Lewis wrote that "the greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil Dickens loved to paint but ... in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices." Never before has the truth of his words been so apparent. Vicky Brago-Mitchell, Los Angeles...
...Paint-can drums thundered and homemade signs shuddered outside the Holyoke Center last Thursday as the Student Labor Action Movement protested the university’s staff layoffs. But the hordes of passersby—aloof to the anger—indicated that the “Man” needn’t quake in his boots: The picketers, like many campus activists, proved ineffective...
There, the enthusiastic crowd of protesters marched in a circle while chanting slogans, beating paint-can drums, and shaking home-made rattlers. Many waved signs emblazoned with slogans such as “Workers Sustain Harvard!” and “Layoffs Are NOT the New Crimson...
Adams' paper is the latest in a number of recent studies that paint a grim fate for the world's forests if warming isn't slowed. A major Science study published in January found widespread increase in tree mortality rates in the western U.S., thanks in part to regional warming trends and growing water scarcity. Another study published last month, also in Science, found that even the seemingly limitless Amazon rainforest could be highly vulnerable to drought. And since living trees suck up CO2 from the atmosphere, massive tree mortality due to warming could produce a feedback effect, further intensifying...