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SENTENCED. NGAWANG CHOEPHEL, 30, a Tibetan music scholar, to 18 years in prison by the Chinese government; for espionage. Choephel fled Tibet as a child but returned in 1995 to make a documentary about traditional music--only to be caught up in a crackdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 13, 1997 | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...Wednesday, Oct. 26.The 1998 Oscar-winning film “Shakespeare in Love” has made us lust for a glimpse of the Bard’s romantic side. But in “A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599,” scholar James Shapiro finds no evidence of an amorous element in the playwright’s life at the end of the 16th century. “If Shakespeare was in love in 1599,” Shapiro writes, “it was with words.”And Shakespeare?...

Author: By Therese M Nurse, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bard’s Private Life Remains a Mystery | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...education that students have to be willing to submit to if they are to succeed in winning over new converts. The Brattle was one of the first theatres in the country to run “Donnie Darko,” the cult-classic, and brings directors and film scholars to introduce and discuss their own work and the work of others a few times ever season. Yes, your roommate might be a real movie buff, but chances are good he can’t speak to the meanings of certain scenes as the people who directed them themselves. Hinkle...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Death of the Brattle? | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...gold sticker on my book.” Steven J. Greenblatt, the Cogan university professor of the humanities at Harvard, was a finalist for the award last year for his biography of Shakespeare, “Will in the World.” Another current Harvard scholar, Cowles Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson, won the nonfiction award in 1991 for “Freedom, Volume...

Author: By Joshua S. Downer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Leo’s ‘Restless Genius’ Wrests Nomination | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...LeRoy lecture series is co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the Department of African and African American Studies, and Basic Civitas Books (a division of the Perseus Books Group). They are held in honor of the Harlem Renaissance luminary and Harvard scholar Alain Leroy Locke, and their purpose is “to bring distinguished persons to deliver lectures on topics related to the field of African-American Culture and history.” Peebles’s intended topics at his evening lectures are “Tokyo Traffic & Sea Turtles...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On the Radar: Melvin Van Peebles Lecture Series | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

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