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...most memorable cast members. Instead of playing Bottom as simply half-man, half-ass, Pecci embraced the character so fully that he acted like a total ass. Consistently eliciting a laugh from the audience, even when he was not speaking, Pecci played Bottom with hilarious complexity—simultaneously vain, insecure, and ridiculous...
TIME: Many in the Anglican Communion feel it's hurtling toward schism, with you trying in vain to hold it together. Williams: I don't think schism is inevitable. The task I've got is to try and maintain as long as possible the space in which people can have constructive disagreements, learn from each other, and try and hold that within an agreed framework of discipline and practice. It feels very vulnerable. I can't, of course, deny that. It feels very vulnerable and very fragile, perhaps more so than it's been for a very long time...
...strike,” and organized daily rallies in Harvard Yard. After two participating students had been hospitalized, the leaders abruptly ended this ritualistic nine-day forced-starvation last Friday, citing that the University had consented to “two key student demands.” In a vain attempt to save face, SLAM greeted these so-called concessions—to audit AlliedBarton and subsequently to meet about labor practices—with exultation...
...with chalk, Happy saw her changed reflection and became distressed. Nussbaum says this is possible evidence that elephants have some degree of self-awareness, and experience a wide range of feelings and emotions. She did not say, however, if Happy was simply self-aware or straight up vain. Audience member and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology Steven A. Pinker, however, maintains that different standards apply. “We don’t worry about foxes hurting bunnies the way we worry about what’s happening in Darfur and Iraq.” Panelist Cass...
Before senior running back Clifton Dawson waited in vain yesterday to hear his name called in the NFL Draft, the next classes of the Harvard football team played in the annual Crimson-White spring game, the first night game in school history, held Saturday evening under the lights of a rain-soaked Harvard Stadium...