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...tale of eight English schoolboys as they prepare for their college entrance exams. As “Oxbridge candidates,” they must face the reality of adulthood, while their flavorful, poetical English professor Mr. Hector fights to protect the boys’ playful youth.Ostensibly, Hector (Ilan J. Caplan ’10) parallels the Mr. Keating of “The Dead Poet’s Society.” But while Keating only provides literature, Hector offers illicit sexual encounters. His inability to distance himself emotionally enables “The History Boys?...
...experiences. The tension between Irwin’s new methods of teaching and the more idealistic notions about education of his older counterpart, Hector, provide the backbone of the show. However, the play holds back from judging exactly which is correct, particularly as both characters are so flawed.Ilan J. Caplan ’10, who plays Hector, sees his character as one that is respected by many in the play, but he is as dark and contradictory as the rest. “The questions that surround him add to his darkness,” he says...
...right to reproduce isn't unlimited. You can't put children at risk. The field of reproductive medicine and fertility treatment has an absolute responsibility to look out for the children it is creating in new ways. And in this case it seems to have failed," says Arthur Caplan, chair of the department of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, arguing for a need for professional regulations. "[The process] should look more like adoption, requiring some evaluation of the patient, requiring some assessment of their psychological, emotional and physical abilities to raise children and some control over not trying...
...Arthur Caplan, a medical-ethics expert at the University of Pennsylvania, takes issue with that stance. It's O.K. for doctors to say no, he says; they do it all the time. Some surgeons, for example, won't insert breast implants in women under 18. "Medicine is not a restaurant, and doctors are not waiters," Caplan says. "They don't take orders from patients...
After two prayers, translated into both Arabic and Hebrew, Ilan J. Caplan ’10 led the crowd in a Hebrew song...