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...honor many Harvard directors don’t experience once. In addition to her artistic background, Spillane-Hinks brings to it an intellectual familiarity: the playwright is the subject of her thesis in Folklore and Mythology, of which this staging will be a part.Still, her intimate knowledge of this somewhat esoteric play wasn’t her focus going into Common Casting. “A production isn’t a research paper,” she writes in an e-mail. Instead, she planned on “selling the show as a great story...
...somewhat taken aback. I had not expected to have something like 10 people speaking out against him,? says Abernathy. ?Some were asking point-blank for his resignation, others were saying they were going to put a lack of confidence motion on the agenda for the next meeting. [The denunciations] went on for almost an hour...
...novel suffers from several less-than-perfect attempts at recreating the evocative magic of Proust’s madeleine—employing peanut butter and jelly instead to achieve the “mnemonic power of a simple sandwich”—and it somewhat overeagerly propounds a pastoral ideal as the key to “the good life...
...Other adjustments will be needed. Because the dimensions of Olympic hockey don't match the NHL's standards, the Canadians have to get used to a somewhat different game. With the Olympic rinks 4 m wider than those in the NHL, goaltending and special teams--power play and penalty killing--become even more critical. "Bigger ice surface, totally different game," says Finnish star Saku Koivu. "The NHL guys that are big and strong in front of the net and good in the corners in the NHL don't matter so much here...
...economy is expected to slow somewhat yet still expand more than 3%. But pencil in China for another year of scorching 9% growth. There are encouraging signs of vitality even in Japan and Germany, the world's second and third largest economies, which have struggled for years to break out of their torpor...