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...does this physically by turning the stage into a 7.5-m by 4.8-m swimming pool through which her actors move, and imaginatively by cutting the action between real and mythological time. Even when the village women gather to wash clothes, the constant call of the conch reminds them of a more spiritual life beyond the lagoon. Devised by Nawalowalo and her four actors, Vula evokes a state of being as natural as the tides. "You shut five Pacific Islander women in a room," the director says, "and then you come out with this piece that's that kind...
...running around, and the apartment was too small for a permanent home," says Anne, 60. Then in 2002, when there was a lull in their luxury-export business back in England, they decided to retire early, and bought a three-bedroom apartment in a gated community with a swimming pool and a sea view. "As soon as I saw this building I fell in love with it. It has the 'it' value," says Anne. That process of constant upgrading has helped make Spain rich - and kept cranes along the Mediterranean coast operating at sometimes reckless speed. Now the trade...
...Murr ’73, whose donation for an athletic center endowed the Murr Center, writes in an e-mail that administrative turnover is just one of many factors affecting fundraising.“The fact that Harvard presidents come and go has far less impact on the donor pool than the general economic environment,” says Murr, who also served as a member of the executive committee of the CUR. “My own suspicion is that robust stock markets and high faculty morale are the key long-term elements to fundraising...
...least; but to take 1980 as proof that the nation as well has shifted irrevocably right is to ignore the election’s simple numbers and its circumstances. Reagan’s sweeping electoral victory translates to a 51 percent to 41 percent popular vote lead in a pool of barely over half the eligible voting population. That is a powerful victory, but not a landslide. The Republican ascendancy in the Senate shocked many Democrats who had become complacent in their control of Congress, and certainly it adds color to the visions of “America Swinging...
...Senior Class Committee began the process by accepting anonymous submissions of potential speeches. Based on the text, a handful of applicants were granted an audition in front of the committee, according to Senior Class Committee member Christina L. Adams ’06. Fisher was ultimately selected from a pool of 15 to 20 applicants for the Harvard Oration—the more serious of the two senior speeches. “It was a very tough decision,” Adams said. But Adams said she was confident that Fisher’s speech, entitled “Relax...