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...room laced with glowing Christmas decorations, the actors took the stage in front of the fireplace, completing the entirety of “Hamlet” in only 50 minutes. Event organizer and Lowell English tutor Rebecca S. Erwin explained later that Act II was skipped altogether to avoid the politics within the play and to fast-forward to the more exciting scenes. The smell of pizza filled the room as actors prepared for the performance—not by rehearsing lines, but by eating and laughing about the props they were about to use. Erwin kicked off the show...
Last spring, President Summers stumbled onto a feminist hornets’ nest when he posited that perhaps there are fewer female scientists because of “inherent differences” between men and women. The resulting swarm not only managed to avoid considering the possibility that he may have had a point, but insisted on an even more offensive explanation. The underlying assumption was as follows: Why would a woman not become a scientist? Because she has been convinced that she is not smart enough. Why would a man not become a scientist? Because he doesn?...
...Iraq war of a link between Saddam and al-Qaeda, according to a report in the New York Times, was based primarily on the statements of an al-Qaeda prisoner the U.S. had handed over to Egypt in January 2002--who later said he had fabricated the claim to avoid torture. With more unwelcome attention to the CIA's interrogation record, covering his spies' tracks isn't Porter Goss's only p.r. problem...
...history of Christianity. The 14th century saw famine, the Hundred Years' War and the Black Death. The church itself was ill, increasingly corrupt and at one point contested by three papal claimants. Families were warped or ripped to shreds, with lites suffering a particular crisis of affection: to avoid having many children who would then divide their estates, noblemen waited until they were quite old before taking young wives and producing much younger sons. "Now," asks Chorpenning of St. Joseph's University, "what does that sound like...
...Senior tri-captain] Mike Baria lost a heartbreaker [due in part to] a fleeing-the-mat call that I definitely didn’t agree with.” Fleeing the mat is a one or two-point penalty assessed for trying to get out of bounds to avoid being scored upon. As a result, Baria (165 lbs.) lost a 4-1 decision to Chris Vondruska. The score grew more lopsided when freshman Wesley Walker (174 lbs.), sophomores Joseph Bechtold (184 lbs.), and sophomore Jonathan Butler (197 lbs.) all dropped their matches. Harvard, however, salvaged a win in its last...