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...whose mastery confers membership in the brotherhood. Teachers are "beaks," the three school terms are called "halves," "wet bobs" are rowers, "tugs" are the 70 especially bright King's Scholars, who live together in a house called "College" on reduced fees, as stipulated by the school's founder, Henry VI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Kind of Elite | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

...Dance Program of Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA), dance may be the universal language, but speech and images are the universal communicants. “Dancers’ Viewpointe VI,” a two-act recital that spanned styles from classical ballet to jazzy modern, interspersed informative film-clips and spoken introductions to serve the dual purpose of educating viewers on the show’s content and cleverly distracting them from pauses between numbers. The vision of Artistic Director Elizabeth Bergman, the performance ran April 21 to 23. The recital was divided into two acts, with...

Author: By Mollie K. Wright, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Modern 'Viewpointe' | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

Putting Bob Fosse on the same bill with José Limón isn’t typical, but then again neither is “Dancers’ Viewpointe VI,” the Harvard Dance Program’s spring medley of student- and professionally-choreographed pieces that runs tonight and Saturday at the Harvard Dance Center.Susan Larson, producer of the “Dancers’ Viewpointe VI” and administrator of the Harvard dance program, describes the composition of the varied program as a gathering of all the great 20th century American choreographers...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Rare Puree of Pointe | 4/22/2006 | See Source »

...their new young Queen a reminder of a great past when they had carved out empires under Elizabeth I and Victoria, and dared to hope that she might be an omen of a great future. Her dramatic flight from a vacation in Kenya at George VI's death to take her place at the head of the royal family beside the Queen Mother and revered Queen Mary gave the British spirit a lift even in the midst of their bereavement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Defender of the Faith | 4/14/2006 | See Source »

...says insults at soccer games - even when targeted at a player's race - are merely examples of aggressive gamesmanship, intended to distract opponents. "It's like calling someone fat or ugly, a dwarf or an idiot," he says. "People use whatever physical characteristic they can to provoke someone." Carles Viñas, author of The World of the Ultras: Spanish Football's Rad-icals, disagrees. "There's a lot of hypocrisy in Spain about this," he says. "People don't want to admit to the racism that exists in this country." Piara Powar, director of Kick It Out, a London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ugly Game | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

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