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More than 50 women and men formed a circle on the steps of Memorial Church last night, each clutching a tall white candle to represent their joint efforts to empower survivors of sexual violence and recognize the end of Sexual Assault Awareness Month...

Author: By Alice E. M. Underwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vigil Empowers Sexual Assault Victims | 4/30/2010 | See Source »

Standing 6 ft. (1.8 m) tall in gym shoes, Lynch has often gotten screen time by taking on parts intended for men. "My first role in high school was the king in a one-act version of 'The Princess and the Pea,'" she recalls. "It started the pattern." (In The 40-Year-Old Virgin, she plays Carell's boss - a part originally written for a guy - with lecherous absurdity.) But Glee is the first chance audiences have had to watch Lynch inhabit a featured character over time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best in Show | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

Flieux’s cheeks were painted with extravagant eyelashes and big black tears, and the rest of the ensemble included fishnet stockings, converse sneakers, a black dress with a heavy gold collar, and a tall black wig decorated with multi-colored bows...

Author: By Alice E. M. Underwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Drag Night Held at Queen’s Head | 4/19/2010 | See Source »

...Dares Whines "All I could make out in their language were the words Mr. Bean. They were laughing at me ... making me feel about three inches tall." That was the lament of Arthur Batchelor, a 20-year-old seaman seized in 2007 by Iranian guards in disputed territorial waters on the Iran-Iraq border and held for 12 days along with 14 other British service personnel. In a newspaper interview, Batchelor also confided that he'd "cried like a baby" during his captivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense of the Realm: Britain's Armed Forces Crisis | 4/19/2010 | See Source »

...Vatican doctrinal office. The Secretary of State job has enormous responsibility, essentially serving as Vatican Prime Minister, charged with making the wheels of the billion-strong church turn smoothly, while the Pope focuses on being shepherd to the flock and teacher in chief. Though well liked, the tall and bespectacled Salesian from Italy's northern Piedmont region has not been getting good reviews. "Bertone is a disaster," a Vatican official told me before the latest public brouhaha. "He doesn't have a sense of how things work outside of Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid the Abuse Scandal, Benedict's No. 2 Draws Fire | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

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