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...jokes director J. Jacob Krause about his scrawny actors. “The script is talking about things that don’t really [exist] onstage.”“WELCOME, GENTRY”Nineteenth-century operatic parodies of Gothic literature may sound more like a freshman seminar than an evening of college entertainment. But the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HRG&SP) manage two highly entertaining productions every year since their founding in1956.After last night’s opening, “Ruddigore” (also called “The Witch’s Curse?...
...Mayors—had high praise for the featured guest. “He is unafraid to ruffle feathers,” Ellwood said. “He fundamentally believes in doing the right thing.” The event was held in conjunction with a three-day seminar for newly elected mayors held at the KSG. The seminar is sponsored biannually by the U.S. Conference of Mayors...
China's leaders finally honored Hu Yaobang, a former Communist Party General Secretary who fell from grace in 1987, by commemorating the 90th anniversary of his birth on Friday. The small seminar at Beijing's Great Hall of the People was observed with intense interest by China watchers from around the world. Here...
...Hollywood, Chang has stayed busy writing and spending time at Harvard, where her classes are focused on the creative writing process. In English Crr.: “Beginning Fiction,” she emphasizes the stories of writers like Chekhov and Joyce before focusing on student work. The seminar environment allows Chang to work closely with students, a vantage that the author “enjoys enormously.”And though Chang will undoubtedly miss many of these students, she eagerly looks forward to beginning her new directorial position and climbing new peaks in her career—albeit...
...problem is simple: The seminar consisted of a long speech given by the owner of a Boston-area sex shop. It was a great opportunity for the woman to promote her products and their use to a large audience of undergraduates who had volunteered to dedicate two hours to listening. Free samples of her merchandise were handed out, their use explained in detail. Given that the shop owner was female, it was presumably easy for those involved to reassure themselves that she was there to share new modes of personal expression. Some embarrassment about the fact that the speaker...