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When Evita Bezuidenhout, South Africa's first lady of satire and sequins, decided to buy the old train station in the Afrikaner town of Darling and transform it into a dinner theater to perform her political cabarets, the residents were a little concerned. Since 1981 Evita Bezuidenhout (pronounced Bezaydenhote) had kept the nation crying - with laughter - as she used her sharp tongue to rip to shreds the apartheid government and all those who stood by it on TV, in South African theaters and on the London stage. Ten years on, however, Evita se Perron (Evita's Platform in Afrikaans...
...one’s work. “It’s not about the grades,” says Uzodinma C. Iweala ’04, a creative-writing-workshop veteran. “You’re really trying to go for something else. You can just perform to a certain level in other courses. In creative writing, you have to do your best.”“It’s like a masochistic sort of joy,” says Mallory R. Hellman ’08 of writing workshops. According to Hellman, creative...
Walsh said that as a result of the incident, resident tutors will perform spot checks “to make sure there are no propped doors...
Swum by those individuals not competing in next week’s Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) Championships at Princeton, it gave many underclassmen the opportunity to perform in a different, and more intense, setting...
When he was 17, Genarlow Wilson had been his high school's homecoming king, a football star and the recipient of an academic scholarship. But after being arrested for allowing a 15-year old girl to perform oral sex on him, he was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison, plus lifetime registration as a sex offender. Now he is at the center of a heated legislative battle in the Georgia state senate to rewrite the law under which he was convicted in 2005. Public reaction to his imprisonment led to the passage in 2006 of a so-called...