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...eerie light, the nighttime glare of the levee bordering the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. “How could we use the most enigmatic play of the 20th century to talk about what happened in Katrina?” video artist Paul Chan remembers asking himself on a trip to New Orleans in the fall of 2006. His answer: a staging of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” in two devastated areas of the city. Beckett’s play, the story of two tramps waiting for a mysterious presence who never...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Paul Chan Deals with Difficult Subjects and ‘Three Easy Pieces’ | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...HCAA will hold a laptop collection on Dec. 12 and 13 outside Quincy House and in Annenberg. Negroponte said he hoped Harvard students would get involved by traveling to developing nations during the summer to distribute the laptops. David M. Sengeh ’10 is already organizing a trip to his native country of Sierra Leone to hand out the computers to children there. “Illiteracy in Sierra Leone is 70 percent,” said Sengeh. “If we want to keep in line with Nicholas’s 20-year education plan...

Author: By Niha S Jain, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cheap Laptops, Rich Experience | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...journalist Sebastian Zollner, the novel tells of how Zollner, who is just one bestseller away from fame, travels to the countryside to interview the reclusive Manuel Kaminski and write the artist’s definitive biography. But he soon gets sidetracked from this task, finding himself on a road trip with the painter to the city. While this rare chance to spend some intimate time with Kaminski may have seemed like the perfect opportunity to enliven his book with personal anecdotes, Zollner realizes through this experience that to try to contain the artist’s life in a commercial...

Author: By Eunice Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Kaminski' Got Nothing | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...second round.This year will be no less difficult. The Minutemen will be the favorites when the two teams take the field tomorrow. After winning the Atlantic-10 regular season title, Massachusetts will be looking for a repeat of its tournament run in 2007 that ended with a trip to the Final Four.“They are a team that knows how to win,” Harvard coach Jamie Clark said.The two teams come into tomorrow’s match-up looking almost identical in the formbook. Both the Crimson and the Minutemen enter the weekend on the back...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soccer to Face Off in Tourney | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...bombs' - bundles of leaflets the two countries fired at each other. Then, in 2004, an agreement was reached to end the assaults. But since President Lee Myung Bak took office in February, relations with Pyongyang have again deteriorated. In July, when a South Korean housewife was shot during a trip to North Korea's Mount Geumgang, a symbol of reconciliation, South Korea suspended tours there and hasn't allowed its citizens to visit since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Koreas, the Return of Balloon Diplomacy | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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