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...opponents than he did two years ago. His main adversary is former Ontario premier Bob Rae, who also unsuccessfully sought leadership of the party in 2006. According to Cohen, the two are “lifelong friends.” “[It’s] a Shakespearean rivalry, or the rivalry of a Greek tragedy—I’m not sure which,” said Cohen. But recent events make this contest a very different race from the one in 2006. In last month’s election, which resulted in the reelection of Conservative...
...Wasilla is a tragedy, Shakespearean in scope—there’s a gorgeous natural environment with a relentless assault of strip malls,” Howk said in an interview last week. “Wasilla is one big road that cuts through town and there’s a grocery store and a Wal-Mart...and a strip mall...
...with Mail Goggles, those e-mails are no more. Instead of penning verbose diatribes or Shakespearean sonnets, I struggle for hours to do elementary math problems before cursing my computer, giving up, and falling asleep in a state of frustrated, drunken bliss...
...Bronstein, has three brothers and two parents. Ten years later, her family has been effectively halved, its members picked off by illness and death. The question at the heart of this story is simple: How does a girl manage to grow up while fighting the gravitational pull of a Shakespearean succession of tragedies...
...weighty pondering, losing the play’s comedy and energetic pace. However, in the hands of a competent cast, the richness of the play becomes a great asset. The intellectual sparring between Priour’s tutor and Wright’s pupil runs the gamut from Shakespearean allusions to iterated algorithms but is made human by two sensitive and intelligent performances. Every erudite punchline is properly parsed out and correctly timed; neither of them miss a beat. Their relationship becomes more serious as the play progresses, but their connection is handled subtly and without sentimentality, successfully drawing more...