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Notes on a Scandal is melodrama trying to pass itself off as a slice of realistic life. But director Richard Eyre and screenwriter Patrick Marber keep forcing us past disbelief and into the perverse pleasures of nastiness. If nothing else, their film is the perfect antidote to all those warm, forgiving schoolboy dramas we've endured through the years. This corn is not green; it is rotten down to the last kernel...
...Father Richard Neuhaus' Viewpoint [Nov. 27], in which he explained that Pope Benedict XVI is challenging Muslims to confront hard truths: Islam indeed has a menacing aspect, and the Pope finally addressed it directly. Since the defeat of the Turks in Vienna in 1683 and the subsequent decline of Muslim power, jihadists have dreamed of reconquering the Christian West. Islam has an expansion policy, which is that every Muslim has a duty to spread the religion in the name of the Prophet. Criticized as a myopic hard-liner when elected, Benedict might become the Pope of progress in Christian-Muslim...
...RICHARD COLE...
...drew director Adam G. Zalisk ’07 to the script. His past three productions were much more canonical: Sophocles’ “Antigone,” Chekhov’s “The Seagull” and Shakespeare’s “Richard II.” “Having a 20-minute scene really allows a kind of depth of...character work that I hadn’t gotten to do in such a sustained way before,” Zalisk says. Depth and richness in LaBute’s work...
...dilemma. In October, University Health Services (UHS) floated the idea of renaming what is now Mental Health Services (MHS) at UHS Behavioral Health Services (BHS), and prompted a furious response from some quarters of the student body. “Is BHS BS?” the panel asked. Richard D. Kadison, Chief of Mental Health Services—although his nameplate read “Chief of MHS/BHS”—told the twenty attendees that he suggested the change in order to attract students who need support or counselling but believe the facilities...