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...Kennedy II suffered the fallout of his annulment, Father Michael Smith Foster, associate judicial vicar with the court that awarded it, took the opportunity to pen an article for the local Catholic newspaper, the Pilot, in which he addressed 13 "misconceptions" about the practice. No. 4: "Declarations [of nullity] render children illegitimate." This is simply not the case, Foster explained. No. 2: "Declarations cost thousands of dollars." In fact, the fee in Boston is only $450. No. 13: "There are too many declarations granted...
...Etzioni of American University, the ambiguous racial identity of mixed-race children may be "the best hope for the future of American race relations," as Besharov puts it. Letting people define themselves as multiracial, Etzioni argues, "has the potential to soften the racial lines that now divide America by rendering them more like economic differences and less like harsh, almost immutable, caste lines." Those who blend many streams of ethnicity within their own bodies, the argument goes, will render race a meaningless concept, providing a biological solution to the problem of racial justice. This idea reflects a deeply pessimistic view...
NEIL SIMON'S RUMORS IS APPROPRIATELY subtitled: "A Farce." True to the name, it's the sort of comedy that runs the risk of coming across as more silly than witty. But an able cast and smart directing choices can render it side-splittingly funny, as demonstrated with glorious success in the current production showing on the Loeb mainstage...
...Silverstein as Ken, the anxious lawyer, also shines, particularly during his bout with deafness: his superbly comic expressions render even the old gag of mishearings and misunderstandings a la Cuthbert Calculus extremely funny. Daniel Goor '97 almost steals the second act as the sardonic, tough-talking Officer Welch, but Amblad's Lenny makes a sweeping comeback with the rip-roaring rigmarole that brings the farce to its zany climax...
...featured spring exhibition, "Tales from the Land of Dragons: 1000 Years of Chinese Painting," the viewer confronts two magisterial images. On the left is an unusual dark brown stone, known as a scholar's rock, valued in Chinese artistic tradition for its elegant natural form and its power to render the viewer's glance into a contemplative, even mystical gaze. On the right stands a wide stone relief of the serene Buddha with his attendant Bodhisattvas: enlightened beings destined to help the Buddha's followers reach Nirvana, on either side...