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...Community theater often showcased Harvard students, including the young T.S. Eliot '14 who appeared as Lord Bantock in The New Lady Bantock; or, Fanny and the Servant Problem. Paul Robeson, appeared at the Brattle in his premiere performance of Othello...
...Banca di Roma to buy a two-bedroom house in the fashionable Prati section near the heart of Rome. The interest was a painful 12.5%, but the Longos had little alternative, since that was about the average rate on a home mortgage in those days. Anna, a civil servant, says that life became a matter of pinching lire. "We couldn't ever go away anywhere," she recalls. "We didn't even go out to the cinema...
Coming on the heels of several other unsettling incidents, including the resignation of Hong Kong's top civil servant Anson Chan, many in the territory wonder whether the moment of truth has arrived: four years after Britain's colonial rulers sailed away, is Beijing about to drop its pretense of non-?interference and force Hong Kong to toe the line on Falun Gong...
...years Laetitia worked as a domestic servant in Durban and dutifully sent all her wages home to her mother. She fell in love a number of times and bore four children. "I loved that last man," she recalls. "After he left, I had no one, no sex." That was 1992, but Laetitia already...
...about previously normal people who went to Washington and returned hollow shells of their former selves. Apparently, we're not a nation of Mr. Smiths. More like a nation of Dan Rostenkowskis. We've heard about shedding all irony and sarcasm and adopting that unflattering "I'm a public servant, I'm here to serve" pseudo-sincerity. And yes, we (well, one of us anyway) have also heard about those horrible mid-calf-length skirts...