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...abroad. According to a recent Gallup Poll, the percentage of people who do not trust the government at all on domestic issues has doubled since May 2000. This unprecedented loss of public confidence might be reversed with a judicious rewrite of the tax code—certainly an excruciating prospect for many at the top of the political world...
...said that the city could take more actions to ensure pedestrian safety. “We’re not taking traffic management as seriously as we should,” he said. Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 agreed that the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Prospect Street, where Meyers’ death occurred, was difficult to navigate, and that an increased police presence could encourage safer driving. “Just the presence of a police operation might help pedestrians feel more safe,” Reeves said. Kelley said the council should look into whether...
...aspects tend to fall flat. In addition, the pathetic characters Handey utilizes in his pieces are given no human side, and their transparecy and one-sidedness can make the jokes just a little too cruel. And yet Handey is able to mine everything for humor—even the prospect of manslaughter. When the narrator talks about his issues with running over hitchhikers, he asks, “Have you ever been driving and hit a strange bump and wondered, What was that? That was a hitchhiker.” Unlike a lot of pop comedians, Handey doesn?...
...physical, to bring something to life is really different from the work most of us do academically.”Kaufman has “vague” post-graduation plans, though she would like to work in the production or administrative side of theater. When thinking about the prospect of not being involved in Harvard’s drama scene after graduation, she pauses and blinks.“It’s almost impossible to think of not being here next year,” she says. “It’s weird to think...
...extraterrestrial organs come alive, wheezing over the surge of it all. This is “Machine Gun,” the first single from Portishead’s new album, “Third.”More than 10 years after their eponymous second album, the prospect of a third Portishead studio release seemed something less than viable. After all, trip-hop was a movement firmly entrenched in the 90s, petering out with Massive Attack’s “Mezzanine” in 1998. Without a cultural groundswell like that of the original Bristol scene...