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...this season, Yale has stood idly by as San Diego and Holy Cross snuck away with wins. In the week following each of those losses, the Bulldogs dominated their league opponents, Cornell and Dartmouth, en route to a 2-2 start...
...celebration of National Coming Out Day yesterday, students stood behind a table draped in rainbow flags outside the Science Center, blasting Diana Ross’s “I’m Coming Out” from an iPod and shouting, “Happy Coming Out Day!” to other students on their way to class. “The goals of Coming Out Day at Harvard are to increase visibility and to increase awareness,” said Joshua D. Smith ’08, the political chair of Harvard’s Bisexual...
...grim truth: just how hard it's going to be to prevent further attacks like these. The police have finished their forensic investigation, the yellow tape and red flags marking body parts have been removed. Tables and chairs have been set upright, and the bottles and plates that stood for days as the sad reminder of never-finished holiday meals have been cleared away. The owners of restaurants at Jimbaran Bay say that when they reopen in a month or so, the popular eating strip will have security cameras and guards checking cars and their occupants. But with large numbers...
...plays, from Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (which opened on Broadway in 1984) to his latest, Radio Golf, was set in a different decade, chronicling the struggle of African Americans to come to terms with the legacy of slavery and the injustices of today. His work stood apart from, and above, nearly everything else in contemporary American theater. While others wrote spare, personal, ironic plays, Wilson's were big, verbose and passionate, brimming with social protest and epic poetry. Offstage, too, he was a maverick, opposing color-blind casting and advocating what some felt was a separatist black theater...
...quickly those scared off by the quality problems will come back. The goodwill is clearly there. "I personally haven't given up on Mercedes-Benz," says Hurvitz, the financial-company president in Rockville who switched to a Lexus. "I loved the older ones and what I perceived the car stood for. I still hope that [the company] can turn itself around." Germany is hoping...