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...However, growing student and faculty interest as well as the currency of the Curricular Review have set the stage for actual change. And while one might assume that the theater community would whole-heartedly support such a move, the hour-plus debate on the topic at the last Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) open meeting demonstrated that while the original push for a theatrical concentration may have come from the theater community, it is still a complicated and contentious issue...
...both within France and across the E.U. To be ratified, the constitution must be approved by each member state. A rejection, or even a narrow yes vote, from the Socialists will almost certainly embolden opponents of the document in places like Britain and Denmark, and accelerate Euroskepticism elsewhere. The topic took center stage at last week's meeting of European Socialist leaders in Madrid. "Voting yes for the European constitution is a step forward; voting no is a step backward toward crisis," Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero advised the French Socialists. Hollande agrees: "The European...
...Mondovino opened Nov. 3, the film has received mostly positive reviews and lots of buzz among wine lovers. It comes out in the U.K. next week, and in the U.S., Italy and Germany next spring. Nossiter is working his material into a 10-hour television series on the same topic, to be released sometime next summer. Far from a tiresome screed about the perils of globalization, Mondovino makes its argument by portraying the outsized personalities Nossiter finds across the spectrum of the wine-making world. We hear the emphatic musings of Languedoc vintner Aimé Guibert, who calls wine "mankind...
...approaches his book project with all the daring of innocence. To get data on homosexuals, he simply goes to gay bars and questions the first guy he meets. He dutifully instructs his canvassers on how to elicit honest information from subjects. And when the conversation wanders from Topic A, Kinsey, all business, barks, "Let's get back to masturbation...
...review of 19 clinical trials involving more than 135,000 participants that determined that taking high doses of the vitamin (400 international units or more) may actually increase overall mortality and should be avoided. Be advised, though, that this will surely not be the last word on the topic. Expect other researchers, as well as the vitamin industry, to dispute the findings and weigh in with their studies. Feel any better...