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...without its comedic moments. Green describes the logistical problems of how to stage the execution of the nuns that concludes the opera. “We spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to make sound of a guillotine on stage...Here we are working with this horribly tragic scene, and we’re having tons of fun trying to figure out how to make the noise,” he recalls. “The most creative suggestion involved a cleaver, a cutting board, and heads of cabbage. In the end we finally settled with scraping...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ben E. Green '06 | 2/16/2006 | See Source »

...Core survives Harvard’s three-year-old curricular review, the story of the effort to redefine undergraduate education here might one day be reading material for the Literature and Arts-A course, ”Tragic Drama and Human Conflict...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett and Johannah S. Cornblatt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Summers Storm Could Sidetrack Review | 2/16/2006 | See Source »

...resolution bothered me the most: in its attempt to be hard-hitting, it ends up feeling exploitative of the racial dynamics and the tragic death of children...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freedomland | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...Brien ’06 a History and Literature concentrator in Kirkland House, is the former associate managing editor of The Crimson and a recovering perfectionist. Her column “Undercovered” will appear on alternate Fridays, and will focus on the (sometimes hilarious, often tragic) disconnect between students and the Faculty at Harvard...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Crimson Editorial Board is pleased to announce its Spring 2006 columnists | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...also useful for eavesdropping, gossip, and other guiltily indulgent social activities generally frowned upon unless you’re standing one person behind the other. For all of their virtues, it isn’t surprising that things go horribly awry in the absence of lines. From the tragic stampedes that kill hundreds during the Muslim hajj to the depressingly comical Lamont Dessert Riot of 2005, man-made blunders have shown time after time that chaos ensues once lines fail to make their heralded appearance. If it is part of being civilized to form lines, then it certainly speaks...

Author: By Emma M. Lind, | Title: The Bottom Line | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

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