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...Call”—which debuted at the Loeb Experimental Theatre on Thursday—will seem familiar to many Harvard students. The play centers around three bohemian, upwardly mobile Manhattanites whose nonchalant approach to sex and relationships develops into a convoluted love triangle that eventually collapses. Written and directed by Rheeqrheeq A. Chainey ’11, “Last Call” takes an episodic approach to portraying a complex and emotionally wrenching situation, one Chainey’s script handles with precision and empathy. An excellent production overall, the show’s only...
...prevent the Guardian from revealing the existence of a report commissioned by the oil trader about the alleged 2006 dumping of toxic waste off the Ivory Coast by a ship chartered by the company. The lawyers then tried to stop the Guardian from telling its readers about a written question lodged in Parliament this week by Paul Farrelly, a Labour MP. His question mentioned both the secret injunction and the report. (Read "Bobby on the Tweet: British Police Try Twitter...
...Shotnes points out that the effectiveness of gagging orders has been eroding for years, pointing to the banning of a book called Spycatcher, written by former British secret agent Peter Wright, in Britain in 1985. "The book went on sale in America and in Australia, and everybody was getting their friends to bring books back," he says. "Then it got to the point when you could injunct a newspaper, but you could still read the story about the celebrity on the website of a foreign paper. Now stuff can be communicated left, right and center. Half the people...
...majority of tanning salons required parental consent in the form of a phone call or written statement. Only 5% said they would not allow a teenager to tan. And of the establishments that allowed teen tanning, a mere 11% adhered to the FDA guidelines and said they would cap visits at three per week. "The tanning industry makes its profits off selling a carcinogen to teenagers and young adults. In that sense, it is similar to the cigarette industry," says Dr. Martin Weinstock, a professor of dermatology at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School and an author...
...Afghanistan, McCain has criticized the President for what he calls Obama's hypocritical hiring of lobbyists. He blasted the White House's decision to kill a missile-defense project in Eastern Europe planned by Bush. McCain has declined to join bipartisan talks on climate change, though he has written similar legislation in the past. And on health-care reform, an issue that he criticized Obama for being fuzzy about during the campaign, McCain has said, "Americans have made it abundantly clear that they do not want government taking over their health-care decisions...