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...Federation may seem like a uniquely contemporary phenomenon, but anyone who's looked at theatrical history knows that staged depictions of violence are far from new. In order to better understand the dramatic roots of the World Wrestling Federation--its literary ancestry, if you will--we talked to Ayanna Thompson, a fifth-year graduate student in the Harvard English Department who studies dramatic depictions of torture in Renaissance and Restoration England...
...Ayanna Thompson: Well, stage torture really begins during the Restoration. It seems that in the Renaissance they didn't have a lot of depictions of torture on stage. They followed more of the classical idea that you don't show violence on stage. If you think about Shakespeare's plays, for example, there are very few violent scenes on stage--with, of course, the exception of war scenes, suicide, and murders. But no actual torture...
Hoxby, the author of a study entitled "The Return to Attending a More Selective College: 1960 to the Present," spoke before the Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn...
...Apparently, colleges and universities themselves don't have a good understanding of why tuition rates are rising so rapidly," Thompson said. "Colleges have to do more to make themselves more transparent in explaining their finances...
...same time, the federal government needs to do a better job of looking at tuition rates that are rising faster than the cost of living. As this committee has found with government agencies, you have to know the nature of the problem before you can work to solve it," Thompson added...