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...obnoxious brother, Cash. Her warm presence onstage allows her to alternate effortlessly between her character’s comedic and serious moments. Kalina is tender and loving, if at times offensive (she makes one particularly awkward comment about exterminating the gypsies, like they did with the Jews). In spite of these moments of bigotry, Mia makes Kalina’s lines the most heartfelt ones in the play.The set, designed by Cristina Todesco, is a beautiful backdrop to the cast’s exceptional performance. Although in the small theatre the audience is already seated close to the action...
...arrival of a new President tossed some tinder onto the cold coals of economic confidence; now Orszag and others inside the Administration are trying to feed the fire. And in spite of Obama's insistence that his team must walk and chew gum at the same time - make that "run and chew gum," his advisers recently amended - it is starting to register that nothing would stoke the flames better than a credible strategy for cleaning up the banks. As a senior Administration official puts it, "The money is less important than restoring a sense of confidence." (See pictures...
...that the admissions committee has decreased its accepted applicant pool 9 percent. After accepting 660 Ph.D. students last fall, GSAS will only admit around 600 this year, though the number of applicants to the school’s Ph.D. programs rose by approximately 12 percent this year. Yet in spite of the fiscal crisis, Dean Smith, President Drew G. Faust, and GSAS administrative officials said that they are committed to maintaining their support for the University’s graduate students, whom the University admits on a need-blind basis. “We thought it was crucial to assure...
...disdain, and vocal opposition. The Westboro Baptist Church has essentially succeeded in offending rational people at every point on the political spectrum. Given that the WBC is little other than a marginal group with no real agenda or goal besides the spread of hate, it is dismaying that their spiteful rhetoric will be present at Cambridge Rindge and Latin. The upside to their ignorance and spite is the validation that it lends to the principles of free speech. The vocal and offensive rhetoric of this small group is so clearly preposterous, absurd, and uninformed that they act as the very...
...sexual, though her principles of sexuality are often divorced from their praxis. One day she’s an Independent Woman, and the next she wants to take the backseat and Upgrade U.On the track “Upgrade U,” Mrs. Jay-Z suggests that in spite of her independence, she is partial to relationships that are secure and run, “by the man, but the women keep the tempo.” “It’s very seldom that you’re blessed to find your equal...