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...spectacle of Tom Stoppard hoofing it through the theater district on a bum foot would be disconcerting to people who think of the playwright as something of an élitist. Ever since his sensational stage debut in 1967 with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead--his absurdist riff on a pair of minor characters in Hamlet--Stoppard has become almost a genre unto himself, taking intellectual, often abstruse subject matter and turning it into challenging yet playful drama. His game, frequently, is the oddball juxtaposition: moral philosophy and gymnastics (Jumpers); Fermat's last theorem and Byron's love poetry (Arcadia); James...
...first one is always significant, we’re hoping it can give us some momentum and a little credibility as we start our journey here in the Ivy League.”Ben-Eze might be Harvard’s biggest recruit ever. The 6-foot-10, 230 pound native of Nigeria reportedly picked the Crimson over Marquette, Virginia, and Virginia Tech—three teams that reached the NCAA Tournament last year. ESPN.com ranks him as the 66th-best player in the class of 2008, and according to that website, is a skilled shooter, an excellent offensive rebounder...
...past week, each time members of the Harvard football team (4-2, 3-0 Ivy) set foot in the locker room, a glaring set of scores stared back at them...
...These are the questions that every sports fan will have to answer as we are each forced to evaluate our individual philosophies about sports. If sports are entertainment to you, PEDs are a welcome improvement—heck I wouldn’t mind seeing 600 foot home runs more often, especially given the disputed nature of alleged negative effects of some PED’s. But if sports are something sacred to you, then this potentially widespread impurity must be disconcerting...
...backlash against prostitution could escalate, however. El Alto officials are determined not to reopen any brothels within a 1,600-foot radius of schools, and there are rumors of similar citizen protests planned for the cities of Cochabamba and Sucre. The sex workers are hoping that the public health risk posed by their action forces the authorities to back down. But by refusing to undergo the medical checkups required to be able to work legally, it also potentially opens them to further police action...