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Deciphering off-year elections is like reading the first chapter in a novel. You wonder what's foreshadowing of bigger things to come and what's just a false clue designed to throw you off the track. California elected a Republican action hero as its governor. Now Mississippi has elected a Republican Washington Lobbyist as its governor. Good for Bush in 2004? Or is it a positive sign for outsiders, whether they're Republicans...
...shutters of the shop, swept away the debris, repainted the walls and stocked up on goods. Business is still slow, and the farmers who come for batteries, kerosene and groceries can often buy only on credit. But these are minor irritations. Singham looks around the store in wonder at the blue bottles of kerosene stacked over the red bottles of oil, the sacks of rice, and the colorful satchels of malt powder festooning the doorway: "I never thought it would be possible to come back here...
Harvard’s history with concerts prompted some to wonder how popular last night’s event would be. The concert was the first big name pop music event—aside from an appearance by the Verve Pipe at Springfest 2002—in more than two years. But last night’s audience far exceeded the roughly 900 who attended that concert, an October 2001 performance by Dispatch in Sanders Theater...
...cultural non-identity puts me in a minority at Harvard. Given enough time, most conversations between acquaintances here will devolve into a discussion of the participants’ heritage, usually by way of a discussion of the etymology of their surnames. Lately, though, I’ve begun to wonder whether my classmates’ cultural identities aren’t as newfound as my Freedonian one—albeit more authentic. Our cultural identity isn’t important in our hometowns, where we know each others’ families, and where we tend to take certain parts...
...fact, the show’s first four acts—all straight plays—get dreadfully dull despite their provocative subject matter, and the acting is too uneven to make the plays significantly more engaging. We’re led to wonder whether Knox wouldn’t have made a better essayist than playwright...