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...last week, things changed. Two days in a row, I sat down with my morning paper to read on the front page about serious charges leveled against students I know personally. Two days in a row, the Harvard social gossip wheel started spinning long before lunchtime with details of transgressions, details few gossipers were clear on but many were fabricating, details in which the rumormongers seem to take something of a voyeuristic guilty pleasure. It makes my stomach turn...
...seemed until last summer when London’s Royal National Theatre opened a new production of Hamlet starring Simon Russell Beale. I had the privilege of watching the show while it was still in previews, sitting flush with the right-hand wall in the very last row of the balcony. It was probably the worst seat I have ever had in a theater, but it was undeniably one of the most incredible theatrical experiences of my life. Charles Spencer of London’s Daily Telograph said that Beale’s was a performance...
...eyes of a broader public, one whose wits have been addled by entertainment masquerading as news. Subtitled “a primer for the looking-glass world,” it is as redundant to the living-wage activist as The Stranger is to the inmate on death row; comforting, perhaps, but not terribly informative...
...NAFTA partnership, Canada and the U.S. moved to the verge of a multibillion-dollar trade war over softwood lumber; it came not long after a bruising spat between Canada and Brazil that involved subsidies to airline sales and, briefly, a shutdown in the beef trade. Brazil was in a row with the U.S. over the pricing of generic aids drugs that added another thorn to a perennially prickly relationship...
Carter walked the first batter he faced to force in Northeastern's Michael Lomuscio from third. Though Carter struck out the next three batters in a row to end the inning, Lomuscio's run proved to be the game-winner...