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...form hasn't crimped Journal substance. On Day 3 of the new era, last Thursday, the paper produced a smart pair of page one stories about the biggest business news story of the week: the flameout of Home Depot's CEO Robert Nardelli. A news piece chronicled Nardelli's demise and his troubled relationship with the Home Depot board, and a thoughtful Alan Murray analysis described how Nardelli fell out of touch with the demands today's CEOs routinely face. The pieces jointly dominated the top of page one; I didn't miss that phantom sixth column (whose absence...
...Yale that Richard met her husband, Robert Dewar, an American archaeologist who earned his doctorate at Yale and taught at the University of Connecticut before coming with Richard to Cambridge, where he is now a research fellow...
...costumes and set work together effectively to underscore the status of the characters. Costume designers Olga I. Zhulina ’09 and Sabrina Chou ’09 put each couple in subtly matching colors while Robert wears neutrals, effectively emphasizing his isolation. The set, designed by Melissa E. Goldman ’06 and Grace C. Laubacher ’09, consists of five large cubicles along the walls on the first floor for the couples and three smaller ones on a second level for the girlfriends. The band is perched in between the two levels, serving...
...07’s choreography make the most of the set, putting couples in their separate cubicles at times, and at others bringing them out of the corner like boxers to do battle (sometimes literally). The couples also emerge from their spaces in lighter moments to crowd around Robert, bringing good cheer and claustrophobia-causing affection in equal measures...
...Eventually, Robert realizes that despite the hardships that he sees in the couples around him, it’s better to be with someone than alone. Whether or not you draw that conclusion from the bickering couples and equally conflict-prone one-night stands of “Company,” the play skillfully depicts them with wit and energy...