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...Leverett House production manages to transcend the play's ludicrous premise and make its audience laugh. Part of the reason is that the play does have some indestructible one-liners, like Mortimer's "Insanity runs in my family. In fact, it practically gallops." Even the relentless attacks on theater critics are funny. Really...
...musicians' relentless musical activity may be a reaction against what they perceive as Harvard's stifling live music scene. Heiberger complains that there is "not enough demand for live bands" among Harvard audiences and house committees that are "too easily pacified with disc jockeys." There is also the problem of finding practice space in the houses...
...that Asian Americans actually do participate in a broad range of extracurricular activities, much as other U.S. students do. Nearly a third of the Asian Americans he studied competed on varsity athletic teams, and more than 20% were active in student government. Still, the image of Asian Americans as relentless bookworms persists. "If you are weak in math or science and find yourself assigned to a class with a majority of Asian kids, the only thing to do is transfer to a different section," says a white Yale sophomore...
...relentless war with Iraq is only the most visible sign of Khomeini's determination to defeat heretics. No less important are Tehran's ties with the terrorist networks of Shi'ite radicals that stand ready to do the Ayatullah's bidding. Though tactics may shift, Khomeini's ultimate goal remains the same as when he came to power in Iran in 1979: to extend Shi'ite fundamentalism over all of Islam and recover the unity and power that the Muslim world has lost since the Middle Ages. "Khomeini is a one-track fanatic," contends a senior Israeli official...
...biggest boon, however, is the seemingly relentless bullishness of the market. The remarkable run of the Dow Jones industrial average began in August 1982 at the lowly level of 776.92. The Dow, having more than tripled in value since then, is now so high that investors sometimes get a kind of queasy altitude sickness that requires a retreat. That is what happened this spring, when a sizable sell-off sent the Dow tumbling 190 points from a record 2405.54 on April 6 to a low of 2215.87 on May 20. But then the Dow began a summer surge...