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...Hunchback Kit” is a novel idea: a do-it-yourself kit for staging “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”—which actually lacks the do-it-yourself. While about half of the other works in the exhibition are somewhat participatory, the viewer cannot actually use the kit. Without enabling participation, the piece only suggests that the viewer might act as Quasimodo. Considered in the terms of this piece, the art gallery is not a stage, and the viewers are not actors. Instead, the gallery became a museum of theater, firmly keeping viewers...
Divorced daddy Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) picks up his daughter after school, looking forward to her weekend visit with him. But he finds little Maya (Abigail Breslin) and half the school in a tizzy; they just had a sex education class that was, perhaps, somewhat premature for some of the students. At home that night she insists that he tell her the story of his marriage to Mommy, which becomes an account of his young manhood and its significant romantic interludes. He insists on giving false names to the three women with whom he was most memorably involved, forcing...
...blood pressure] changes during the night - if you live around the airport for many years, for example - that in the end you might get some long-term effects on your blood pressure," says Jarup, "but we don't really know." Why the body responds to nighttime noise is also somewhat mysterious. While the research in humans is new, previous lab experiments in animals have shown that they register blood pressure blips in response to noise, even during sleep or sedation. "That was the same here," says Jarup of the current study, suggesting that the human body's response...
...Being engaged as an undergraduate at Harvard can be somewhat trying, Vittori explains. “Everybody kind of looks at you strangely. ‘How could you know?’ It makes you grow up a little quicker.” Their biggest challenge, however, has been living apart since Hetrick’s graduation last spring. Are these two ready for their long-distance walk down the aisle...
...class of 2000. This is not the first time top schools have come under scrutiny for their admissions policies regarding Asian Americans. In 1990, the federal government investigated Harvard for discriminating against Asian applicants. The investigation found that lower admission rates for Asians—despite somewhat stronger academic credentials—could be attributed to legacy and athlete preferences, which primarily benefited white applicants. Yi Chen ’09, co-president of the Asian American Association, said that she didn’t think too much about her ethnicity when applying to college. “Harvard...