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...protect neighborhoods from sectarian militias, have been prettified. The government has paid artists to paint huge, brightly colored murals on the walls, so a drive now takes you past bucolic scenes of farmers planting rice, fishermen in the marshes, peasants dancing in verdant valleys. The walls give Baghdad a somewhat disjointed feel, making it less a city than a series of contiguous fortresses...
...apartment overlooks what expats somewhat offensively dub the "French Concession" - the old colonial name for the Luwan and Xuhui districts - although the almost exclusively white, champagne-sipping crowd certainly had something of a colonial air about it. The celebrity quota included actresses Melissa George, Jennifer Jason Leigh, January Jones and Ginnifer Goodwin, as well as ballet dancer Roberto Bolle and several generations of Ferragamo family members...
...production at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center (CMAC) that runs through April 13, the latter is very much the answer. But in its efforts to constantly amuse its audience, the production bypasses many of the more serious and deep elements of the play, creating an entertaining but somewhat hollow experience. The story of Prospero (Alvin Epstein), the deposed Duke of Milan who now inhabits a mysterious island, his daughter Miranda (Mara Sidmore), and his servants Ariel (Marianna Bassham) and Calaban (Benjamin Evett) is one of Shakespeare’s most challenging. The play begins with the eponymous storm that causes...
Gouinlock said that the experience of remaining on campus as fun czar after one’s friends have left can be somewhat strange...
...Harvard sailing team stayed local for the first weekend of spring break, competing in two regattas in New England on March 22-23.Though the results were somewhat mixed, both Crimson contingents came away from the blustery weekend happy with their results.The co-ed sailing team took fourth place out of 18 teams at the Boston Dinghy Club Cup, held on Harvard’s home turf of the Charles River.Meanwhile, the women’s team competed in the Mosbacher-Knapp Trophies in Branford, Conn., a co-ed regatta.The Crimson placed 13th in the 16-team field in the event that...