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...Harvard Law School presents a modernist interpretation of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Director and professor Bruce Hay envisions the play as a parable of racial intolerance, including a controversial scene from the original script that’s found in the appendix and rarely performed, suggesting racial undertones in the work. Tickets $5 with Harvard I.D. (HBO). 7:30 p.m., with additional Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. Runs through April 24. Ames Courtroom Auditorium, Austin Hall...
...Harvard Law School presents a modernist interpretation of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Director and professor Bruce Hay envisions the play as a parable of racial intolerance, including a controversial scene from the original script that’s found in the appendix and rarely performed, suggesting racial undertones in the work. Tickets $5 with Harvard I.D. (HBO). 7:30 p.m., with additional Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. Runs through April 24. Ames Courtroom Auditorium, Austin Hall...
According to a new study, chief operating officers can be likened to your appendix. Not only are they unnecessary, but they can also turn into expensive problems. The study, which will appear later this year in Strategic Management Journal, concludes that companies with a CEO-COO combination substantially underperform those without a second-in-command. For boards of directors, the COO position is always a thorny issue, particularly if they have strong-willed CEOs. Researchers examined 10 years' worth of data, from 1987 through 1996, for more than 400 companies in 21 industries to yield a sample...
...Israeli and foreign protesters presented no danger to the soldiers 30 m away, even after the troops fired warning shots. Then came the bullets to his legs. His injuries were so severe that doctors pumped 15 L of blood into him as they tried to stem the bleeding. The appendix to Purple Lilac dealing with the West Bank fence authorizes soldiers to warn anyone who tries to cross or damage the barrier - and to shoot them if they ignore the warning. The new rule, they say, was designed for potential Palestinian suicide bombers who might try to break through...
...Wachowski brothers are devoted to and informed by anim?, the cerebral, ultraviolent, consciously cinematic style of animation pioneered by the Japanese. After the original Matrix opened in Japan in September 1999, the Wachowskis floated the possibility of producing an anim? homage, based on the Matrix world, as an appendix to the films. Top directors?including Shinichiro Watanabe, creator of the hip Cowboy Bebop, and Koji Morimoto, who worked on the seminal Akira?signed on immediately. The brothers wrote four of the nine shorts themselves; the rest were penned by the directors under Wachowski supervision. "The Animatrix was like being invited...