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...lights remain half-lit for much of the performance, so that as the actors enact the “general copulation” of revolution or recreate the swift drop of the guillotine, the audience may look around and watch each other writhe...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Marat’ Overflows with Potential | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...Irish brothers enter a room full of Italian (or Russian) mobsters. Gothic techno plays in the background. In beautiful synchrony, the brothers shoot everyone and then place coins in the eyes of the dead. They cross themselves and say a prayer, bidding the soul of the dead a swift departure to their hellish punishment. And then they crack a joke and revel in how easy it all is—how fucking cool killing people...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Return of Boston's Patron 'Saints' | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...Reaction from Chirac's office was swift. In a statement released Friday morning, it said the former president was "serene" and "determined to prove in court that none of the jobs still being debated were fake." Chirac also made it clear he wished to be treated "like any other citizen before the law." (See pictures of Paris expanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chirac Faces Charges. French Shrug. | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...here at FlyBy seriously enjoyed the hilarious recent pop culture reference of this shirt. After all, the Kanye figure speaks the truth here. However, we foresee one slight problem: Didn't the MTV music awards debacle create an outpouring of support for Swift and disdain for Kanye? Yeah, that might be one unintended consequence we don't want...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble | Title: We Don't Need a T-Shirt to Tell Us Yale Sucks... | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...fears that anything but a severe punishment for the defendant, an unemployed Russian émigré identified only as Alex W., could spark more unrest. In Egypt, where el-Sherbini has been dubbed by the media as the "headscarf martyr," people are expecting "justice to be administered in a swift way," Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, Egypt's ambassador to Germany, told al-Jazeera. (See pictures of Islam's soft revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'Headscarf Martyr': Trial of the Century for Muslims | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

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