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...Culinary Society founders Cass L. Forsyth ’08 and Avery A. Cavanah ’08 were luckier than their predecessors when they approached the deans in the spring of 2007 to get approval for their new student organization. Previous proposals for a food society had been turned down because the deans assumed a lack of interest on campus.At the Freshman Activities Fair the following fall, the nascent organization was flooded with nearly 600 prospective members. “People were apparently just begging for something to fill this really huge niche,” Rinzler says.Barbara Haber...
...modern culture. These are 10 of the more widely recognized theatrical works by the Bard, and by her careful selection Garber widens her potential audience to those who may have had little Shakespeare exposure (including, as Garber informs us in the introduction, George W. Bush). Each chapter (and, in turn, each play examined) concentrates on a specific issue of modernity. For “The Tempest,” it is “the Conundrum of Man;” for “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Untimeliness of Youth...
...that in this economy, unions are certainly going to be an important resource,” said Pollock, who is also both a TF and a unionized Law School faculty assistant. “It’s times like these that people do need to turn to the union...
...want to see the invasion plans for Iran?” In another parallel to “Quantum of Solace,” the plot centers on the hot topic of environmentalism. In this case, the bad guy tries to manipulate environmental leaders to turn the planet’s trash surplus into personal profit. You might think that these elements would develop into some sort of political commentary, but you’d be wrong. The acting may be nugatory and the storyline skeletal, but the film does provide a bare framework for car chases and fights...
...players in the West Bank may be profound: the actions of the Hilltop Youth were condemned and strongly discouraged by the long-established settler leadership of the Yesha Council, who recognized that young settlers being seen to use violence against the Israeli state and randomly attacking Palestinian civilians could turn Israeli public opinion strongly against the settler movement. But the young settlers at the heart of the Hebron confrontation have shown themselves to be beyond the control of the traditional settler leaders and of the rabbis associated with the movement, although their actions could carry very negative consequences...