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...Juliet, whose romance is thwarted not by family rivalries but by this familial guilt. His best lines have gone to Juliet, whose troubles are most sinister. Or at least Brittani Sonnenberg '03 makes them seem like the best lines. Coming from her role as Cecily in last semester's runaway success The Importance of Being Earnest, Sonnenberg converts the coy navet of her Wildian role to the coy hopelessness of a wrecked teenage girl. She smiles, flares or stares into space with a studied cynicism...
...Third World Cop is not a Hollywood vehicle featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme kicking butt in the poppy fields of some developing country. It's a Jamaican-made police/action drama starring indigenous actors and shot with low-budget digital cameras. The movie is a runaway success on the island, and though it won't be released in the U.S. until later this year, the sound track is in stores this week. The album is an engaging mix of reggae and hip-hop-influenced dance hall. Performers include reggae star Luciano as well as dance-hall acts Beenie Man, Innocent Crew...
...life ambitions marked a maturation of Zimbabwe's democracy. The president had based his campaign on racial demagoguery, trying to portray a "no" vote as an endorsement of the colonial past. But the minds of the urban voters was focused less on the distant past than on the present - runaway inflation, fuel shortages, repression of dissent and a military adventure in support of President Laurent Kabila in neighboring Congo that prompted the IMF to cancel all assistance to Zimbabwe. The first warning sign was there last winter, when the capital, Harare, was shut down by two days of riotous protests...
...President Bill Clinton's accomplishments has been to restore the strength of Franklin Roosevelt's legacy by reforming welfare and conquering runaway deficits while still showing how government could help average citizens. He's written a fascinating piece about what Roosevelt means today. Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of a best-selling book on Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, is a great historian and a wonderful writer. Her biographical essay on Roosevelt captures, in a moving way, his personality and historic significance...
Last week's Undergraduate Council election was a runaway victory for Fentrice D. Driskell '01 and her running mate John A. Burton '01. The council itself did not fare as well...