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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Within the play, however, the actors--each of whom, except Constance, plays several roles--demonstrate more talent than the script can readily accommodate. Lindsey Richardson's Constance is appropriately timid and awkward, and while her mannerisms tend towards the cute, this is no more than the character demands...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Goodnight Squanders Talent Dreaming of a Better Script | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

...Thomas Vincent (Justin Levitt) invokes the power of God to soothe his troubled parishoners. As he begs for God's mercy, he becomes irate, realizes the pathetic and hopeless predicament of his state. He yells his sermons to little effect, except to grate on the audience's nerves...

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: Living on the Edge | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

...Harvard, Ph.D.s may be awarded only through a single faculty: the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Other Harvard graduate schools, such as the Law, Medical and Business Schools, cannot award Ph.D.s in their fields of professional training except through joint programs with FAS granted by ad hoc committees. The highest degrees that our professional schools are able to award are other doctorates, such as the Law School's J.D. degree or the Medical School's M.D. degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: End the FAS Ph.D. Monopoly | 5/3/1995 | See Source »

Rounding out the other four seeds are third-seeded Princeton (16-7, No. 42), fourth-seeded Miami (12-11, No. 22), fifth-seeded Dartmouth (11-5) and sixth-seeded Columbia (12-4, No. 49). Harvard has played and defeated all of these teams except for Miami...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: MEN'S TENNIS OFFICIALLY HEADED TO NCAA'S | 5/3/1995 | See Source »

Even before the Oklahoma disaster, forensic experts had called for additional regulations that would make it more difficult to create ANFO bombs. Some have called for bans on the sale of ammonium nitrate except to licensed buyers. Or, less drastically, the government could require the inclusion of inert materials that make the compound less explosive--as is done in England and Northern Ireland. That would inconvenience American farmers, who would have to use more fertilizer to get the same result. But it might also end up saving lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BOMB LURKING IN THE GARDEN SHED | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

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