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...appropriated the West imperfectly. To his wife's demands for autonomy, he suggests, "Sometimes I think things would be better if you just agreed to do whatever I told you. That would make me feel more confident. Don't you think I'm right?" Her view: "You are useless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost in Transition | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...able to speak both languages immediately makes a prospective coach, or even a player, more attractive to an organization, as they can eliminate the need of an otherwise useless translator...

Author: By Frank Herrmann, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Killing Time, Learning Spanish | 3/14/2006 | See Source »

...Call from the Grave” is bone-chilling, even in a story that is for the most part black comedy, and his spoken-word acting is powerful and eloquent.The most thematically challenging parts of the story (the fake happy ending, the “Useless Song”) are perfectly executed, but the intentional attempt by the performers and the stage director to alienate the audience and complicate the script often obscure the basic storyline. Very rarely do the actors interact with each other, choosing instead to act for the audience. Weill and Brecht do write scenes...

Author: By J. samuel Abbott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Modern Opera Seems Distant | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...self-described orthodox Jew living in Thayer, faced a dilemma involving his Shabbat key. The key he received only opened the basement door, and from there he would be required to take the electric elevator to his room. Litoff, who has since lost the somewhat useless key, has to piggy-back into Thayer from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. The Hurlbut keys, though, apparently work fine. So does that mean that Hurlbut is the new Hillel alternative for those locked out of Thayer? “Since Hurlbut is a very small dorm, it feels like a very overwhelming majority...

Author: By Giuliana Vetrano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hillel in Hurlbut? | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...admitting athletes with 2.0 high school grade-point averages.But more importantly, these student-athletes continue to be athletes once they get to Harvard, thereby contributing to their community. There is no Crimson speedskating team. For all of Cheek’s talent, he would be virtually useless to the athletic department.All of this is not to say that Joey Cheek is not an intelligent, sociable, and generous human being whom his potential classmates would find very intriguing. But, as so many who have come before him, he just doesn’t make the Harvard College cut. Hopefully that won?...

Author: By Karan Lodha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GET A LODHA THIS: Joey's Cheek Not Enough to Win Over Byerly Hall | 3/2/2006 | See Source »

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