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...problem is that Hizballah is also fighting for its survival and unlikely to back down. The group's patron, Syria, is on the run from a U.N. investigation that has implicated the Assad regime in the car bomb assassination last year of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, an event that led to the end of Syria's occupation of Lebanon. Moreover, U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the summer war with Israel, also placed thousands of new U.N. soldiers in southern Lebanon, which had been uncontested Hizballah territory since the group drove Israel out in 2000. "Both sides...
...says. “The prevailing faction, led by baritone and talented director David Hammond, proclaimed their independence by producing a non-G&S show, ‘Fledermaus,’ which was a critical success but one which alienated the bulk of the organization’s patrons.”Many of the exiled followed Paul to MIT, where, in the Spring of 1969, Marshall directed a production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Patience.” According to Marshall, his show “had more Harvard G&S players...
...Sullivan Players (HRG&SP) waltz into Cambridge for the organization’s 50th anniversary celebration.When a few students first conceived of starting such a group, in the spring of 1956, they had few resources other than their love for the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, with the first patron letter requesting a modest five dollar donation. Since then, HRG&SP has grown into an organization that has involved over 5000 people throughout the years, and produces one of the most popular, best funded performances each semester. Though HRG&SP is less widely known than some other theater groups...
Boredatlamont.com is the online discussion board that has become the unofficial Web home of the Lamont patron. Anyone bored enough to type in the Web address can contribute in complete anonymity. New posts show up every few seconds, and while the potential topics of discussion are unlimited, the conversation veers invariably towards sex. (Saturday, 2:24:53 a.m.: “ISN’T THIS SITE THE COOLEST THING EVERRRRR!; Saturday, 2:24:57 a.m.: “my sexual frustration needs masturbatory release...
Copley painted the Bessborough portrait after he moved from America to England and worked under a British patron. “He was a particular champion during his English phase,” said Margaretta M. Lovell, a professor of American art history and architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. She added that Copley, in his British years, adopted a painting style distinct from his American work...