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...Hard Weather Boating Party, by Naomi Wallace, suffers from something like the opposite problem. The play knows where it's going; the problem is getting there. Three apparently unrelated men gather in a seedy motel room to plan a murder. Yet the first act is padded out with mostly aimless talk; only in the second act, when the three return after the semi-botched operation, do we learn what's on Wallace's mind. The men's target, it seems, is the chief executive of a chemical company that has been polluting the waters and sickening workers. It's nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louisville: Where New Plays Go to Be Born | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...this season, which included victories over Boston College and Cornell. His second class of recruits will not be finalized until late May, but early projections have it ranked at the top of the Ivy League. Outside of recruiting, Wade’s presence was felt in the team locker room.“I think everyone had a good relationship with Coach,” Pusar said. “He was really in touch with the personality of the team. It helped us psychologically. When things were going good, he knew what to say, and when things were going...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coach Departs Harvard Program | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

Visiting professor Jonathan N. Lipman ’69 spoke to a room of 30 students last night in the Lowell Junior Common Room about the striking diversity of Islam in China, as part of the ongoing Eighteenth Annual Islam Awareness Week. Organized by the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS), the week consists of five days of events—from April 6 to April 10­—that aim to inform the Harvard community about the practices, beliefs, and cultures of Muslims on campus. According to HIS president Na’eel A. Cajee...

Author: By Antonia M.R. Peacocke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Talk Kicks Off Islam Awareness Week | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...simply browse away. The idea of persuasive speech, conversation with a point to it that advances one viewpoint over another, is increasingly remote. No one argues anymore, or, if they do, it’s about things like who deserves to pick up that peanut on the common-room floor. The upshot of modern communication methods is that you get to choose whom you talk to, and people tend to pick only those who agree with them...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: We Need to Talk | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...recent Wednesday afternoon, Montserrat Vila sat in her Barcelona apartment, waiting for the bullfighters to appear. They were not coming to show off some cape work in her living room. In fact, they were not real bullfighters at all. Rather, the three men, dressed like matadors in garish tight pants and embroidered jackets, were coming to collect a debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain's Costumed Debt Collectors: Final Notice? | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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