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...Vegas won't be affected by the regional casinos, as much of Sin City's traffic comes from conventions and vacation goers and its properties are state-of-the-art megaprojects of a sort that can't be found in other parts of the country, says Snow...
...conjunction with Women’s Week, OSAPR recently organized a screening of the documentary “The Price of Pleasure.” The film surveys the state of mainstream pornography, ultimately speculating that the problem with most erotic film is that it depicts sex, quite literally, through a single lens. Instead, Rankin suggests, we should be exposed to a plurality of sexuality and sexual experience...
...Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) from March 12-23 in its North American premiere. The production was worth shipping across the Atlantic. Funny and well-acted, it wryly reimagines Strauss’s and Hofmannsthal’s dialogue between the comic and the serious as a commentary on the state of contemporary opera—simultaneously providing an impressive showcase for virtuoso singing...
Three veteran administrators—two Harvard affiliates and a former member of Massachusetts state government—assumed positions in the top ranks of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ financial administration earlier this month. The appointments come as FAS looks to pare down its budget, which still rests $80 million...
...Further revelations may, in fact, not be very far away. Last week, Northern Ireland's Health Minister Michael McGimpsey said that a state inquiry into institutional and clerical child abuse should be considered. For campaigner Mary Raftery, the possible consequences of such a probe are clear. "It would inevitably expose a range of cover-ups and would make the church's role [in Irish society] unsustainable," she says. "The number of people whose hands aren't dirtied by this is quite small...