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...Homeland Security (DHS) urged Harvard students to join up, a student forced himself to vomit into a bag. This act—supposed to symbolize the student’s disgust with the shoddy human rights record of America’s intelligence community—has become the subject of more discussion than any other puke in Harvard’s history. One man’s vomit has become a symbol of all that is supposedly wrong with campus activism. Critics have accused the Progressive Puker of distracting Harvard from the issues, making the Left look...
Wilson's plays already stand apart from virtually anything else in contemporary theater. The overarching subject of his epic is the legacy of slavery, yet the plays teem with vibrant, idiosyncratic, fully imagined characters who are never reduced to political placards. The plays are realistic, even old-fashioned, in style but sprinkled with mysticism and magic: ghosts, visions, seers and a matriarchal figure named Aunt Ester, who recurs throughout the series and lives to the age of 366. With their poetic, often meandering dialogue, the plays typically start slow (anyone who says his eyes have never drooped in the first...
...business leaders' timing could not be better. Two major plans for the harbor are now in limbo, having been subject to a barrage of legal and popular complaints. A planned 26-hectare reclamation in Wanchai?whose principal purpose was for a highway?was halted last year by a court challenge. And proposals for an ambitious arts district on reclaimed land in West Kowloon have been frozen by public protests over the government's intention to hand the $6.8 billion project to a single developer. In this enforced breathing space, Hong Kong has a rare opportunity to figure out, once...
...Catholic priests, the wine they use in Mass is subject, ironically, to a sin tax." ABRAHAM MITRA, Philippine legislator, objecting to the government's plan to tax the Roman Catholic Church on such commercial activities as selling rosary beads
...generation of drugs began helping people with HIV/AIDS live longer and healthier lives, Kelli and Jim Hughes began to feel more hopeful about the future. During a visit to her doctor, Kelli tentatively broached the subject of having children and was stunned when she received a go-ahead. "We had adjusted to a marriage without kids," says Jim, who grew up with nine siblings and desperately wanted children. "When they said it was O.K., we were shocked because everything we'd heard up to that point was that we couldn't have children because they would be infected." Using home...