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Kon� represents the all-too-rare success story of a young black man from one of France's blighted suburban housing projects using his smarts and business flair to come out on top. (Those banlieues erupted in riots earlier this year.) But Kon�'s dramatic tale goes deeper. Born in the southern Malian village of Ni�na, which even today has no electricity, Kon� left for France at age 10 unable to speak French. He went on to obtain a prelaw degree in the hopes of becoming a police inspector. A talent for boxing earned him two French amateur titles...
...only bright spot of the Expose tale is that the backlash was swift. Under pressure from local media, Elloie issued a bench warrant for Expose's rearrest--claiming that he hadn't been told all the details of the case. But federal authorities swooped in with their own warrant and arrested Expose themselves. He has since pleaded not guilty and remains in jail without bail...
...Some weekends there’s huge crowds, and then some weekends there aren’t,” said Barry A. Shafrin ’09, who preformed in the Sunken Garden Children’s Theater’s production of “A Tale of Two Cities.” “I feel like Arts First is really good because people will make a connection to the arts and want to see shows in the future.”The OFA also honored six outstanding student artists this weekend, including Zoe M. Savitsky...
...love with the language of the books from which it is derived. The script keeps much of the poetry recited by various characters, and preserves a good number of the puns—at one point, a professorial mouse (Benjamin K. Glaser ’09) reads the tale of his life off of his tail.But the adaptation does struggle to create a sense of continuity between two books with very different tones—the first is jubilantly frenzied, the second whimsically melancholy—which are themselves episodic tableaus rather that unified narratives. Drake has elected to uphold...
...PATRICK R. CHESNUT Crimson Staff Writer Charles Dickens, Oprah Winfrey, and Scooby Doo might not seem to have much in common, but each made an appearance in the Sunken Garden Children’s Theater’s adaptation of “A Tale of Two Cities,” which ran in Radcliffe Yard from May 5 to 7. Taking its cues more from “Shrek” than from Dickens, the play worked as both a comedic children’s show and a delightful postmodern farce. The play, co-directed by Mary E. Birnbaum...