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...Anyway?—the entire crowd was brought to tears from side-splitting laughter. The talented young actors who make up theattractive all-student cast were mostly freshman with as much aptitude for humor as any member of a professional comedy troupe. The director of the play, Andrew Arthur, the non-resident film and drama tutor at Winthrop House anddoting father figure to his cast members, agreed, saying, “Harvard actors are as good as you can find anywhere.”The play, which is advertised as a mixture of “Fawlty Towers...
...year. Lenovo, which has been under threat domestically from Dell, has seen gross margins from its corporate PC business fall from 14.8% last year to 12.4% in the second quarter of this fiscal year. "Chinese are buying foreign companies out of desperation because of shrinking margins at home," says Arthur Kroeber, managing editor of China Economic Quarterly. "It's not a silly gamble, but it is high risk...
...hearing yesterday, a Brighton District Court judge dismissed the charges against Decker concerning the alleged assault of Arthur W. Mckenzie at HBS during the Harvard-Yale festivities. Mckenzie agreed to drop the charges as long as Decker apologized for the incident...
...Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan could have hardly imagined their most beloved operetta The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty as performed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players under the direction of Ashley A.P. Horan ’05. It is a delightful romp of song and dance, with a flamboyant (and let us not forget, glitter-chest) Pirate King who immediately calls to mind images of Captain Jack Sparrow...
...DIED. ARTHUR ROBINSON, 89, cartographer whose work dramatically improved the way the world looks on maps; in Madison, Wis. Mapmakers had long struggled with the problem of representing the round Earth on a flat map. The once widely accepted version by the Flemish Gerardus Mercator, for example, distorted Greenland to appear four times its actual size. In 1963, by focusing on aesthetics--and only later incorporating a mathematical formula--he devised a projection that became the basis for world maps by Rand McNally and many federal agencies...