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...touring band every night. And it gives you a chance to tell a story." A native of Los Angeles who has been recording albums and doing cabaret shows with his band, the Negro Problem, for the past 10 years, Stew, 46, had seen only one musical--How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying--when he started writing Passing Strange three years ago. The loosely autobiographical show recounts the artistic journey (in scenes acted, sung and danced by a full cast) of a young man from a middle-class L.A. neighborhood to the drugs-and-free-love wonderland of Amsterdam...
...president of the University’s Board of Overseers, Harvard’s second-highest governing body, for the 2008-2009 school year, school officials announced last week. Ferguson, who will serve as president in the final year of his six-year term as an overseer, will succeed Frances D. Fergusson ’66 after Commencement in June. William F. Lee ’72, the outgoing vice chair of the board’s executive committee, said that Ferguson and the board’s biggest task for the upcoming term would be to aid University President...
There was no surprise, Sunday, when Cuba's parliament elected Raul Castro, 76, to succeed his ailing, 81-year-old brother, Fidel, as President. But pundits who had expected an infusion of youth into Cuba's Paleolithic hierarchy were roundly disappointed. The six vice presidential posts, for example, were taken by a group of men whose average age is 70 - including 77-year-old, hard-line communist ideologue Jose Ramon Machado as First Vice President...
...This question in mind, I joined the line of more than 100 people waiting on Saturday for the show’s one-night-only stop at the Adams House Pool Theater. Every play and painting and song may be an attempt at art, but not all of them succeed. True art provides more than entertainment or information. There’s something else there, something elusive. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov argued that you feel art in your spine, where it prompts a “telltale tingle” of aesthetic bliss.In search of this tingle, I filed into...
...senior and independent judges. But the reaction to his move - a courageous and visible protest movement led by lawyers and civil society, and supported by the media - has emboldened politicians to push for the restoration of the judiciary, a task at which now, after the election, they might well succeed...