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...production is to give Harvard students exposure to professional theater. Four of the nine actors in Reason are Harvard Undergraduates. The lucky four, Olga V. Fedorishcheva ’03, Angela Mi Young Hur ’02, Johanna S. Karlin ’05, and Susan S. Thompson ’05, concur that working with professionals has been an enlightening experience, and one that is difficult to find as a student actor at Harvard...
...characters they play could not.. Olga Fedorishcheva says, “It’s unbelievable. There is no doubt that this kind of professional acting experience is valuable to students.” However, the actors point out the scarcity of such opportunities at Harvard. Susan Thompson, for example, feels that the college provides great experiences for student directors but does a weaker job making professional-level acting experience available to students. The collaboration between the Market Theater and the Office for the Arts at Harvard happens only once a year...
...LAST WORD? Official U.S. health recommendations are usually issued in obscure government bulletins or scientific journals. But it was Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson himself who stepped to the podium last week to issue the government's final take on the mammography controversy that has raged for months among breast-cancer specialists. The bottom line: a strong endorsement of mammography and the current National Cancer Institute recommendation that women 40 and older get a mammogram every year...
...Mammography is an important and effective early-detection tool that helps to save lives," said Thompson, whose wife learned that she had breast cancer after having a mammogram seven years...
...saving lives, might be doing more harm than good. The U.S., it turns out, had been conducting its own review of the same studies and concluded that they contained "fair evidence" that regular mammograms could reduce the risk of breast-cancer death by 23%-- especially for women over 50. Thompson conceded that the breast test was "not a perfect tool," but the take-home message, he says, is that the benefits of mammography outweigh the risks...