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Saakashvili also drew a contrast between Georgia’s dramatic economic reform in recent years with the policies of the past. He emphasized fiscal restraint, the importance of soliciting foreign investment, and the reduced role of the government as significant changes to the Georgian economy...
...play tells the story of Katurian (James R. Morris GSAS ’10), a young writer who is taken into police custody because a string of recent murders emulate the plots of his gruesomely violent children’s stories. When his mentally retarded twin sister, Michal (Isabel Q. Carey ’12), confesses to the murders, Katurian accepts the fact that he will soon be executed, but desperately struggles to ensure his stories are preserved after his death. The play is told, in part, through reenactments of Katurian’s tales, including a darkly autobiographical vignette...
Although Shields has given voice to the artistic controversies of recent years—Oprah Winfrey’s war on James Frey, the prevalence and popularity of reality television, the question of whether people still want to read novels in the Information Age—“Reality Hunger,” with its fixation on literary and artistic forms that developed long before Shields ever came of age, seems a bit out of sequence. While the ideas Shields espouses—a greater emphasis on truth instead of the artificiality inherent in traditional narrative structures?...
...current exception is Chelsea Handler, the gleefully foul-mouthed host of E!’s “Chelsea Lately.” A recent glowing New York Times profile of Handler acknowledged that, while the comedienne has made remarkable strides on her talk show, she’s orders of magnitude away from a Lettermanian degree of success. There are a few reasons...
...recent years, Yardfest has featured artists who were bland (Sara Bareilles), out-of-date (Third Eye Blind), pleasingly out-of-place (Wu Tang Clan), and actually very good (Ratatat). By crowding this year’s bill with three acts, the Harvard Concert Commission and College Events Board (CEB) had the chance to bring in an even wider diversity of groups to entertain the campus...