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...performance is inconsistent. Anna is both an eerie intangible presence and also a real woman who comes to visit her old friend and witnesses the rather pathetic relationship between her friend and her husband. Sugin handles the former deftly. But as the middle aged sophisticated visitor, Sugin suddenly seems affected, with a manner more conducive for a Broadway musical than serious drama...
...various movies filmed in Harvard Yard, Sanks says. The Bostontans, filmed at Harvard two summers ago, is the most recent example. Sanks says that once while telling a group of tourists about the filming, he added that he had been an extra in the cast. This compelled a Japanese visitor to ask for his autograph...
...according to a frequent visitor to the Supreme Court, Law School Professor Laurence H. Tribe '62. Rehnquist's argument is dubious at best. He says that "Reagan can certainly find judges who are ideologically predictable." He goes on to cite the example of the Hughes Court which contained six appointees of the conservative President Taft. In the 1930's these by then old men struck down piece after piece of New Deal legislation in what the professor describes as the "Dark Age of the Supreme Court...
...would all be laughable were it not so stupid, and one has to wonder what Bishop Tutu must think of such petty one-upsmanship. It seems clear that the issue centers around a relatively simple and unimportant miscommunication regarding the scheduling of a prominent visitor, without intentional snubs from either side. Yet the incident is unfortunate nonetheless, for it demonstrates a painful insensitivity among Harvard officials on at least two counts...
More troubling still is the inappropriateness of the town gown till given the stature of the visitor and the cause he represents. Tutu was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to win political and economic justice for South Africa's nine million Blacks and "Coloureds," who currently live under the oppressive rule of a minority white government. The urgency of this cause cannot be overstated and it is testimony to its extreme nature that organizations such as the city of Boston have taken the unusual step of corporate divestiture. In fact, the irony of the University's indignant...