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...five siblings in a brainy, high-achieving family, she looked at pop culture and asked, "Where are the girls?" In plays like Uncommon Women and Others and the Pulitzer-prizewinning The Heidi Chronicles, she provided the answer with textured portraits of smart, sometimes self-doubting feminists struggling in the wake of the 1960s with competing urges for independence and intimacy. It was familiar ground for the Tony winner who, resisting pleas from her parents, remained steadfastly single. She gave birth at 48 and chronicled her daughter's premature delivery and months in a neonatal ICU in an achingly poignant essay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 13, 2006 | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...said in an interview with The Crimson in December. President Bush, who asked Congress to reauthorize the Patriot Act in his State of the Union address Tuesday, has repeatedly asserted that the act gives law enforcement officers crucial tools they need to protect Americans. Passed in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Patriot Act was originally set to expire Dec. 31 of last year, and Congress prepared to revise and renew the legislation in early December. But a bipartisan group of senators has continued to block long-term reauthorization until their civil liberties concerns have been...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Patriot Act Once Again Renewed | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...wake of last year’s Faculty vote of no-confidence in Summers’ leadership, and on the heels of news that Summers forced Kirby to resign, it could be difficult for Summers to find a dean whom he and the Faculty would both support and who would be willing to serve under the president...

Author: By Evan H. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Challenges Ahead for Summers in Search for New Dean | 2/1/2006 | See Source »

Freshman Tom Stack-Babich, a transfer from Wake Forest, arrives as Harvard’s heralded new power source, and will complement Klimkiewicz and Wilson in the middle of the order. He was recognized as the league’s best new arrival by “Baseball America...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Harvard Takes to the Diamond | 2/1/2006 | See Source »

Because he took a redshirt freshman year at Wake Forest, he has not played since his senior year of high school at Xaverian Brothers High School in Scituate, Mass...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Harvard Takes to the Diamond | 2/1/2006 | See Source »

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