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Rebecca J. Lowenhaupt '99, who is directing this weekend's production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest," says that performing on the steps of Memorial Church helps draw an avid crowd of curious onlookers...
...question is how badly these forecasts may be knocked askew by the ongoing Asian economic tempest. Henry Kaufman, one of Wall Street's most respected financial analysts, wryly notes that economists most often "forecast usual events because we all have experience" with them. But the Asian breakdown is far outside that experience. "We've gone over 60 years since we've had this kind of a massive disruption...
...Stars, or Masumi Kuwata of the Yomiuri Giants, or maybe even a non-pitcher like Hideki Matsui, power hitter from the Tokyo Giants, will be next. Who else will follow Nomo? "To play in the major leagues is still the stuff dreams are made on," says Ikeda, paraphrasing The Tempest. If he and Valentine are right, then Irabu has the stuff championships are made on. And the tempest started by the Tornado could help turn the World Series into a true world series...
...study, based on a new analysis of fossil sites, has created a tempest in the paleontological community. Now researchers not only must explain how a single prehuman population could remain frozen in evolutionary amber for so long after its species went extinct elsewhere in the world, but also must revisit two of science's most hotly debated questions: Where on the habitable continents did modern humans first emerge, and how did they come to dominate the world? "These dates will stir up a lot of controversy," says geochronologist Carl Swisher of the Berkeley Geochronology Center in Berkeley, California, who headed...
...showing the 1912 The Life and Death of King Richard III, the oldest surviving U.S. feature film. For MGM in 1936, Leslie Howard (then 43) and Norma Shearer (36) played Romeo and Juliet. The movies have put Shakespeare in gangland (Joe Macbeth) and outer space (Forbidden Planet, from The Tempest...