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...hunting for fast-moving objects against the background of the fixed stars. So far their Palomar study has identified 25 asteroids that cross the earth's orbit, bringing the known total to 60. Asteroids like this, they think, have occasionally crashed into the earth with catastrophic consequences, and they strive to calculate how frequently these inopportune meetings occur...
...citizen of various towns. Though Candide itself presents a rather sober vision of humanity this production represents the best of Harvard theater with its magnificent execution and wonderous gathering of some of the best undergraduate talent around. Everyone in the cast rises to Pangloss message that one can always strive for the best...
...Curriculum, the College has tried to broaden the minds of its students and insure that they emerge with more than highly specialized knowledge. But when these praiseworthy practices are applied to House and social life, they cease to be admirable and become forms of social engineering. While Harvard can strive to offer as diverse and variegated and undergraduate population as possible through its admissions and curriculum, it cannot cross the line into the regions of individual choice and preference to force-feed diverse experiences on its students. Like a well thought-out buffet, there should be something for everyone...
Whitemore's use of soliloquies in a realistic framework brings his competence as a playwright into serious question. The tone and execution of the play strive for realism, but Whitemore undercuts it with the formal monologue--one of the most contrived devices in the dramatist's handbook. Simple reminiscences intended to add dimension to the characters, these solo speeches instead subtract from the play's impact...
...Though it's impossible to be completely apolitical, we strive to be by concentrating on individual cases of human rights violations," Freidman said, adding that HRAI was founded in 1982 on this principle...