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Last night ye olde-fashioned romance was celebrated at “The Course of True Love: Romantic Shakespeare Scenes, Comic and Tragic,” the first in what organizers intend to become a series of performances called “Shakespeare in Love...
Soldiers fall through the cracks in every war. But the death of Sergeant Gerald (GJ) Cassidy, a cheerful 31-year-old husband and father of two, highlights the tragic and persistent shortcomings of Army medicine. The same Army that spends $160 billion on tomorrow's fighting machines is shortchanging the shell-shocked troops coming home from war in need of healing. Cassidy was promised world-class health care. But he didn't get the simple help--quick treatment, pain-management classes, knowledge of his whereabouts or even a roommate--that could have saved his life...
...bygone era of mixed feelings has gone off the deep end—not in back rooms and rehabilitation centers but a click away, in front of a jeering crowd of bloggers and blog-readers (formerly, “the unemployed”). This lack of privacy might be tragic if this man weren’t paid $67 million a year; maybe it still...
...Screened for the first time in ten years this past weekend at the Brattle Theater, “Let’s Get Lost” uses photographs, interviews, and archived film footage to tell the story of Baker, from his meteoric rise to stardom to his tragic fall into addiction, obscurity, and an early grave. The film struggles, but ultimately succeeds brilliantly in weaving together the strands of a life torn asunder, and, even to the luxurious sounds of Baker’s own music, it is difficult to do anything but recoil at the portrait that Weber paints.As...
...some time talking about the laments of average Americans he has met along the way; then he dives into a litany of solutions he has proposed to address the laments. But those are not nearly so convincing as Clinton's versions of the same; of course, Clinton has a tragic deficit when it comes to inspiration...