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Shapiro's willingness to take risks was also impressive, Kitchens added. In addition to expanding Princeton's student body, Shapiro ended a longtime Princeton tradition--the Nude Olympics--and was responsible for one of the most controversial faculty hires ever, bioethicist Peter Singer. Critics take issue with Singer's views on euthanasia...
...however, and they jumped out to a 6-3 lead at the start of the third game. The Crimson battled back to tie the game at 6-6, and the two teams repeatedly exchanged sideouts until finding themselves tied at 8-8. After Holy Cross Coach Peter Viterotto called a timeout, both teams furiously fought for control but were locked again at 11. With the Crusaders in possession of the ball, Holy Cross' Bennett served the ball into the net, and Denniston answered with a kill to give the Crimson a 12-11 lead...
Near the conclusion of Gore Vidal's Washington, D.C. (1967), a political thriller spanning the years 1937-52, the novel's hero, Peter Sanford, expresses irritable despair at the human condition as he has observed it in his treacherous hometown: "There was never a golden age. There will never be a golden age and it is sheer romance to think we can ever be other than what we are now." Now, 33 years later, Sanford pops up again as the protagonist of another Vidal novel, set in the same place and roughly the same time, and readers familiar with...
...decisions of London's producers and directors. For a nation that could celebrate the new millennium with anything as audacious as the theme park-cum-history museum that is the Millennium Dome, you might think they could at least produce an dramatic innovator on the order of Peter Brook for the turn of the century. But rather than face the years ahead straight-on, the powers that be on the West End have chosen to turn their gaze every way but forward...
...millionaire writer-director Alan Ayckbourn, House and Garden (two interconnected pieces performed by the same cast simultaneously on two different stages at the National Theater) are all concept and no content. In fact, the best piece of original, recent English writing in London today is probably Passion Play by Peter Nichols. Nichols' new work has been unofficially banned from the West End because of a nasty dispute with the National Theater some years ago, but this new revival of one of his early works proves (for those who've forgotten) that he's one of England's most skilled dramatists...