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...instance, in “Coming of Age in Shakespeare,” she broached issues regarding identity and sexuality as seen in Shakespeare’s plays and related them to modern cultural trends. “I want to emphasize the way literature can have an effect upon history and culture,” she writes in an e-mail to The Crimson. “Literature is not just a second-order phenomenon. It does cultural work in the world.” Garber’s newest work, “Shakespeare and Modern Culture?...
...People care about food studies and no one’s talking about it. It’s almost obscene,” Rinzler says. “The University has to ask itself, ‘What could possibly be the solutions to recognizing this interest and acting upon it?’...We’re looking at structural changes. We’re looking at something the University has to take...
...main effect of Nov. 27's Status of Forces Agreement between Iraq and the U.S. is clear--complete troop withdrawal by the end of 2011. But with that pullback comes the end of immunity from Iraqi law for U.S. contractors. Private-security employees have been looked upon with increasing disfavor since last fall's shooting of more than a dozen Iraqis by Blackwater guards. It is unclear whether U.S. contractors will be held responsible for any past offenses...
...officially in a recession now, but we may still think back upon a happier economic time for instruction: prosperous, distant 2005. In that year, two executives of the multi-national manufacturing firm Tyco received prison sentences for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the company for various personal purposes—most infamously, former chief executive officer L. Dennis Kozlowski’s $6,000 shower curtain. These sentences—ranging from 8 1/3 to 25 years of incarceration—were considered forceful messages to other executives tempted to skim off their company’s bottom...
David Suros, the president of Siembra Azul Tequila, spoke about the history of tequila and the future of the Mexican distilling tradition yesterday to members of the Harvard community. Suros said that the making and drinking of tequila had been greatly looked down upon in Mexico until recently but has grown into a thriving culture. He attributed the newfound success to the changed perception of tequila by the media and an increased attention to quality by many tequila manufacturers. Suros’s lecture was the penultimate event of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...