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...learning the alphabet. The school's theater study begins with fairy tales: what they've meant to families and artists alike. And the children get their lessons from the pros: almost 80 theater actors, directors, writers, musicians and other theater people have made guest appearances. Vanessa Redgrave read from Snow White, portraying the witch and explaining to the class how she came to know the story as a child in her native England, when her mother gave her a book during wartime. Producer Scott Rudin told of of how he came to bring his friend Joan Didion's book...
...seven decades since Walt Disney made Snow White, most animated features have followed the Disney mold: cute and colorful, with talking animals and a coming-of-age plot meant to inspire and amuse. Even a seeming exception like Persepolis found saving humor in its girl-grows-up story. Ari Forman's Waltz With Bashir is a break from all this: an animated documentary about the lingering, subterranean effects of war on the director and some old friends who had served in the Israeli Army during the 1982 incursion into Lebanon. The are still haunted by the massacre of Palestinians...
...They weren’t very clean conditions or clean races,” Kharrazi added. “It’s tough to race in conditions like that, in any of the extremes. Wind is the most extreme condition for rowing. Heavy rain, snow, or intense heat is fine, when it comes to wind that’s the one thing that will keep us off the water, and we saw a lot of that.” In the varsity eight, Radcliffe got off the line early and initially led. The Golden Knights made a move, however...
...were to hear from the family of amateur triathlete David Martin, 66, whose legs were chewed apart by a shark as he was swimming in the Pacific on Friday morning, and who died from blood loss a few minutes later, probably before his swimming companions could pull his snow-white body to shore. His family had agreed to speak to the media after two days of mostly respectful but unsettlingly urgent requests from around the globe for shark-kills-man details. Something like 100 news outlets had telephoned...
...title of “Grand Champions.” But the cheerleading team’s path to victory has not been a flawless one. The team acknowledges that for many, the term “Harvard cheerleader” is the ultimate oxymoron. Cheerleader Cassie E. Snow ’10 describes spectators’ reactions as, “Oh my god, Harvard has a cheerleading squad?! Oh my God, they have a GOOD cheerleading squad!” Besides general stereotypes and biases working against them, the cheerleading squad also had to deal with more concrete...