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Other freshmen contributing to the team victory last night included slugger Steffan Wilson, who continued his torrid hitting with a leadoff triple in the third, and Shawn Haviland, who pitched two innings of relief without allowing an earned...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Snags Beanpot | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

...third performer of the evening, Shawn Faherty, uses sophisticated software and high-end graphics hardware to create abstract 3D shapes, which he then manipulates to prerecorded music. Tonight he will be performing to songs by Mogwai and Nine Inch Nails...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Opti-Phonic VJs Remix Culture | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

...says. But how could such a pleasant person write a drama that is at once so unpleasant and annoying, yet so provocative that half of New York seems to be waiting to get into the Public Theater? The answer is that, like many moralists with a pen, Shawn has set off a verbal time bomb, mostly in a series of monologues in which his characters rationalize all sorts of evils, including Hitler's atrocities. "I'm a rather amiable person," he says, "but I believe that our society is not just a little bit sick, but very, very, very sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Now Comes the Just Dessert | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...turns out, is crazy, but crazy in the way some people are at cocktail parties; she is able to find a plausible argument for almost any evil that governments commit, and she has turned Lemon into her philosophical clone. "Lemon presents the justification for pure selfishness," says Shawn, "even for sadistic murder. The question is raised: To what extent have we already accepted these justifications? I intentionally set out to leave the audience frustrated and unsatisfied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Now Comes the Just Dessert | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...William Shawn, the editor of The New Yorker--and a man famous for his almost mandarin courtesy--young Wally was raised in a cocoon of kindness where such selfishness was unthinkable. Only when he was sent away to summer camp did he learn the awful truth about the rest of humanity. He has never recovered from the shock. "The counselors were very rough and occasionally sadistic. Once, when they were annoyed with a boy, they actually suggested that we beat him up! The whole world turned out to be like that camp. I still can't get over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Now Comes the Just Dessert | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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