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...shall never make me...a fool." Jae Y. Kim '96 gave a rousing call to arms in Henry V's "St. Crispian's Day" speech, and Scott A. Rifkin '97--earlier overeager in the Comedy of Errors scene--redeemed himself in a highly comic turn as the servant Launce from The Two Gentlemen of Verona. (Rifkin shared the spotlight very graciously with his silent partner, the dog Crab, played with impressive fidelity by Rusty, the Lowell House...
...your heart is, where your soul needs to be." Yet every paradise partakes of the same spiritual journey, and even Altea's shares attributes outlined in one of Islam's most venerable divine proclamations: "My heaven and my earth do not comprise me, but the heart of my faithful servant comprises...
Such harsh criticism of a Bundesbank chief is rarely voiced in Germany. But Tietmeyer, 65, who survived an assassination attempt by the ultraleftist German Red Army Faction, is used to taking the heat for tough decisions. A senior economic-policy bureaucrat and later the top civil servant in the Finance Ministry, he was Germany's negotiator during the contentious exchange-rate talks of the 1980s. A staunch conservative on monetary policy, Tietmeyer nonetheless has supported European integration, and as far back as the 1970s sat on a committee that drafted an early plan for monetary union...
...when it was finished, he kept the painting and gave Campaspe herself to the artist. In the painting Tiepolo is Apelles, at the easel; the woman posing as Campaspe is Tiepolo's wife, Cecilia Guardi; Alexander is just an extra, a studio model. Apelles looks at her, his black servant looks at him, Alexander studies them both, and a little dog glares out at us: a circle of self-referential glances in lighthearted parody of the Antique...
...Handmaid's Tale and The Robber Bride. That's not a drawback. There's a teasing, unknowable mystery at the heart of the story, which is the same one faced by jurors in Toronto in the 1840s: to what extent was Grace Marks, a pretty, nearly 16-year-old servant girl, guilty of the murder of her employer, Thomas Kinnear? And to what extent was she guiltless, or only partly responsible, because of some combination of hysteria, emotional weakness (she was, after all, female and little more than a child) and mental illness--or outright lunacy...