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...book to note that Hermione’s student activism is a total failure so far, Harvard agitators know all too well that winning better treatment for workers in the face of a coldhearted administration can take years—it will be perhaps Book VI or VII before the House elves see those wages and health care benefits. But Harvard readers can take heart that their Hogwarts compatriots are fighting the good fight along with them...
Elisabeth S. Theodore ’05, a history concentrator in Dunster House, is a Crimson editor. She will spend the rest of the summer counting down the days until the release of Book VI...
...tied to the attack, and have estab-lished that the direction and financing of the attack came from a senior al-Qaeda leader abroad. None of this reassures Moroccans about the future. The goals of greater democracy and tolerance of all religions are at the heart of King Mohammed VI's social program. But there is now ample reason for the government to crack down on Islamist groups, and a long-stalled antiterrorism law - decried as authoritarian and repressive - got new life in the wake of the attack, clearing a major legislative hurdle last week. Even before the bombings, expected...
After drama, VI-4 turned to lighter motifs, as exemplified in The Courting of Montebravado (music by Alexander S. Ness ’04 and libretto by Andrew B. Pacelli ’03). The fifteen minute opera is set in four short scenes that mimick and make fun of the traditional Italian court opera. The Italian names are unseemly and the plot deals with true love impeded by money-loving clergy and arranged marriage, which is ultimately saved by murder. The story is quite obviously a farce—and an entertaining one, especially in light of the fact...
...VI-4 program concluded with a fascinating opera entitled Dr. Magic, the only libretto not written by an undergraduate, performed as an oratorio with minimal stage movement. The premise of Dr. Magic, written by Joyce Carol Oates with music by composer Carson P. Cooman ’04, derives directly from the hero of the title, a crafty magician. Dr. Magic invites a couple to the stage as volunteers and his interaction and experimentation on them scratch the seemingly ideal surface of their lives together...