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...months before he appointed himself President and put Fiji's elected leaders under house arrest, military commander Frank Bainimarama had been threatening to stage a coup unless Laisenia Qarase's government abandoned plans to pardon those behind the abortive coup and mutiny of 2000. But some in Fiji say Bainimarama, who during the mutiny narrowly escaped assassination by rebel troops, has another motive: ending a police probe into the killings of four soldiers from the mutinous special-forces unit...
...Produced by Veronica T. Golin ’07 and Stephen T. Volpe ’07, “Autobahn” takes as its stage the front seat of a car; a series of short dramas reveals five couples at critical moments in their relationships. “Autobahn” is a character-driven play in several senses of the word, and its tight focus on the relationships it depicts in each piece results in a truly intense 90 minutes...
Runcie was especially enchanting as the jaded and listless Hesione. It was comical to think of Hesione’s world-weary character as that of a femme fatale. But Runcie as Hesione was unmistakably a stage siren; in the nearly three hours of the play, she never failed to captivate. Even with drama happening center stage, it was hard to drag attention away from even Runcie’s exits...
There were a few moments when the action on stage seemed more like the affectations of children playing tea party rather than like convincing acting. But in spite of these lapses, the actors effectively brought out the charm and wit of Shaw’s script...
When the No. 4 Harvard women’s hockey team scored its first goal off the back of No. 3 New Hampshire (UNH) goalie Melissa Bourdon, it set the stage for a bizarre night on Friday.Later, the Wildcats scored on a strange deflection, and the Crimson expanded its lead during a period in which it was outshot 16 to 5. When the final whistle blew, sophomore forward Sarah Vaillancourt was called for a delayed penalty, but the game was already over, a 3-3 tie between two of the nation’s top teams...