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...week to hear Pope Benedict XVI speak on his first visit to the U.S. Danielle C. Kijewski ’11 is going to see the Pope in D.C.’s new National Stadium, one of his many destinations in the coming days. Other stops include Ground Zero and Yankee Stadium in New York City. “I am very much excited and inspired by his coming,” Kijewski said. “This is a time when many Catholics in America are facing tough choices, and Pope Benedict XVI’s coming...
...very warm place. That chapter is about experiencing Harvard as a station where you might begin to suspect what your place in the world is. And it might not be what you thought it was. You might have thought that once you got to Harvard everything was set at zero, and it turns out that’s not the case. I think Harvard was disappointing to me at the time, and I still think it’s a pretty tough place in a way that I didn’t expect, in a way that I think...
...better make them laugh; otherwise they’ll kill you.” For South African playwright Pieter-Dirk Uys, this statement is hauntingly literal. His most recent one-man production, “Elections and Erections,” currently being performed at the Zero Arrow Theatre, showcases the wry satire and verbal wit that has defined his career. The performance’s unique format, drawing upon drag and cabaret influences, provides a vehicle for the strong political dissent for which many South Africans have been killed.Uys began writing plays criticizing Apartheid while attending college in Cape...
...some parts of the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe and Entre Rios visibility is near zero, as black clouds from some 300 simultaneous fires cover farmlands, population centres and the highways connecting Argentina with neighboring Paraguay and Brazil. The smoke has even crossed the border to Uruguay, where the capital city of Montevideo is now hazy with Argentine smoke...
...approved by a parliament that is currently focused on cutting government spending rather than promoting art sales. But there's good reason to think Albanel's project will get clearance. First, the plan is nearly pain-free for the state: commercial banks, not the government, would provide the zero-interest loans to purchasing clients in exchange for tax breaks for supporting the arts. Complex rules and restrictions that have limited corporate investment in art to only the largest French companies are also to be relaxed and simplified to encourage smaller businesses to get involved. Similarly, loosening tight regulations on large...