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...creative team for the revival has managed the difficult task of recapturing the '60s spirit without resorting to irony or camp. Director Diane Paulus says her young cast (most of them--including Jonathan Groff, a Tony nominee for Spring Awakening, and Will Swenson--are better singers than the originals) has gained a new appreciation of those distant counterculture years. "I think people are desperately longing to reconnect," she says, "to a time when you as a citizen felt like you could make a change in your country." Oskar Eustis, the Public Theater's artistic director and the guiding spirit behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Dawn for Hair | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...cheer rose from the crowd when a strobe light shut on and Bhangra music, a fusion of traditional Punjabi music with a pop background beat, pulsated through the dance floor. “When everyone is so tired, they all just go crazy,” said Abby Swenson, an MIT junior...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hungama Deemed a Roaring Success | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...swayed unduly by the romance of working in remote locations and war zones and being paid a third of what their classmates make. Not to mention being looked down on by their professors and many of their classmates for not being as mercenary as Harvard University. RAYMOND T. SWENSON Idaho Falls, Idaho March 13, 2006 The writer is a retired lieutenant colonel of the United States Air Force...

Author: By Raymond T. Swenson, | Title: Harvard Military Recruiting Stance Hypocritical | 3/17/2006 | See Source »

...only ones to reject this “market” argument. So does Yale’s chief investment officer, David Swenson, a Yale alumnus who earns roughly $1.1 million per year and manages an endowment fund that has outperformed Harvard’s in recent years. Recently, Swenson said, “the structure of Harvard Management is inherently unstable.” He also warned­ that, “You can’t pay managers astronomical amounts of money because it tears at the fabric of [a university...

Author: By Stanley H. Eleff, David E. Kaiser, and William A. Strauss | Title: Better Uses of Harvard's Wealth | 3/15/2006 | See Source »

...common dangers facing service members in Iraq have helped close the gender gap. In today's Army, nobody gallantly holds the humvee door open for a female, and a woman is expected to carry as much (Swenson's full gear weighs 115 lbs.) and to shoot as well as a man. Women service members refer to themselves either as "combat Barbies"--those who fight the losing battle of trying to look pretty in Iraq's sandstorms and winter sludge--or "hooah girls," named after the motivational grunt of obedience that soldiers give their superiors. "We females do combat ops," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crossing The Lines | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

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