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Coffey, who chairs the Campus Life committee,recited a long list of ideas, including aHarvard-wide formal, a battle of the bands nightat the House of Blues and the return of theCharles River raft race...
...apart from being chronologically impossible, the reviewers miss the point about visual influences. When Chereau stages the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, he has the entire tradition of French art behind him. The artfully twisted limbs and contorted white bodies come not from "Schindler's List" but from The Raft of the Medusa and The Death of Sardanapalus. Delacroix and Gericault sit on Chereau's shoulders like twin angels of visual excess. (Chereau also includes nods to Rembrandt; Pascal Greggory as Margot's brother Anjou is a dead ringer for Rembrandt's Polish Rider...
...haven't tried to escape yet, but I'm going to," said Elsa Quintero, 44, a grandmother who fled Cuba on a raft and has been in detention at Guantanamo since Aug. 28. "The 25th of December is a date I'd like to celebrate, and I'll walk across minefields if I have...
...finger-pointing and raft of rumors that have plagued Russian President Boris Yeltsin's government since "Black Tuesday," theOct. 11 ruble crash, intensified today as two top ministers left office. Yeltsin fired a senior Russian defense official, received the resignation of a leading economic reform advocate and appointed his third finance minister in four weeks. Preceding today's hat trick by three days, the Russian leader dismissed his first deputy defense minister, a general accused of corruption. The government said little about the impact of the tumult on continued economic reform, but the official who resigned today -- economics minister Alexander...
...struggling with the wages of survival. Once the only people on the North American continent, they have persevered as an ethnic minority only to face the classic minority dilemma of whether to assimilate or to affirm a separate identity -- and, if they choose the latter, they further face a raft of federal definitions that can profoundly affect their economic welfare. The result is painful tensions between individuals and between tribes. Says an Indian activist: Just the question of how much Indian blood an individual possesses has become "a kind of built-in self-destruct button...