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...play tells the story of Mary Girard, a real woman who, in the 1790's, was placed in an asylum by her husband. Throughout the piece, author Lanie Robertson asks "Is Mary Girard truly insane?" The seeming insanity of the Furies, figments of Mary's imagination, conflict with her seeming reason as she questions her fate. It is up to the audience to decide...
...doesn't give up on an idea easily. He got all the way through Yale School of Medicine before deciding that a financial career would be more to his liking. He was determined to "democratize venture capital" and teamed up with Andy Singer, a colleague from San Francisco's Robertson Stephens investment firm. They finally corralled Tim Draper, a veteran VC, who wrote them a check for $4.5 million...
...Lanie Robertson...
...inception in an asylum's "tranquilizing chair," Mary Girard struggles with only more confinement: even after she is freed from the chair, she must confront not only the stigma of being labeled insane but also the ways in which her gender precludes her from acting for herself. Lanie Robertson's short play considers the fluid nature of sanity and sovereignty as it follows Mary and her attendant group of "Furies," who are either inmates of the asylum, creations of Mary's mind or both. Director Mimi Asnes '02, a Women's Studies concentrator, cites Foucault and de Certeau as having...
...were supposed to bump into people to show them we weren't weak," a private told investigators. "Everyone in the squad has done things like put their arms around females when they are walking by us and talk to them in a flirting manner," Private First Class Joshua Robertson told investigators. Plainly, the Army provided inept intelligence to these troops before sending them to Kosovo. "I really thought we were coming over here to do some type of damage," one unidentified soldier said, "but when we got over here, the people were really nice...