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...leading-lady role, fared much better as Ännchen.The vague and muted acting of most of the ensemble went hand in hand with the production’s unfathomable setting. With “Der Freischütz,” director Sam Helfrich presents a world that, like the acting, is never really sure what it’s supposed to be. He puts Agathe in a traditional German dirndl while Ännchen, in the same scene, wears a form-fitting black blazer and a pair of department store jeans. The chorus of village maidens, bodices laced...
...respect of their peers and thrown down the gauntlet for a competitive and fast year. This season, nothing is out of reach for the first varsity boat, propelled by the strength of the senior class. Physically and mentally, these veterans are ready to prove that Radcliffe is a world class team.The 2007-’08 season ended with a decisive victory in the petite finals at the NCAA Championships. The varsity eight battled to a three-second win over second-place Virginia, and the team finished in ninth place in the point tally. “We?...
...last few years, super-simple LA-based American Apparel has ingrained itself in hipster culture on both coasts while simultaneously expanding to become the USA’s largest clothing manufacturer, with hundreds of retail locations all over the world. The philosophy behind its fashion falls somewhere between comfy minimalism and 1980s thrift-store retro. But, given its prices, its clientele, and a recession, the question arises—will there be a place for t-shirts and spandex that simply cost too much?In the late 1990s, Dov Charney—hailed before as the Larry Flynt of fashion?...
Imagine 100 companies from Former Third World countries with a combined revenue in the trillions of dollars--greater than the total economic output of many countries--competing with U.S. companies for space on the world stage. Imagine several hundred such companies. Now imagine thousands...
We’re number one—again. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings released last week placed Harvard in the number one spot this year, for the fifth year in a row. Yale finished second, and the University of Cambridge came in third. Though there were some significant changes in the positions of schools in the rankings this year, most U.S. universities stayed pat. Brown, Penn, and Cornell moved up in the rankings while Columbia, Princeton, and Dartmouth moved down. The Hanover, N.H. college lagged behind its peers—the only Ivy to finish...