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...musical based on a story by Damon Runyon, is being presented by the Cabot House Musical Theatre. The romantic comedy follows a cast of colorful characters in New York City as they weave in and out of one another’s lives, singing songs like “Luck be a Lady Tonight,” “Adelaide’s Lament” and “Rockin’ the Boat.” Tickets $7 regular, $5 students. Through May 1. Cabot House Junior Common Room...
...wise enough to avoid making race the central theme of his work. Instead he just puts Asian Americans into funny, compelling stories that would typically feature "white" characters. The titular tale, for example, owes far more to Dan Clowes' "Ghostworld" than to Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club." The longest and best of the book's pieces, "Same Difference" features Simon and Nancy, two dorky twenty-something best friends living in Oakland, California who bicker over pop-culture and local weirdoes. The story follows the two of them as Simon semi-reluctantly drives Nancy to Pacifica in order...
...many ways, these conservative colleges and their devoted students are fighting an impossible battle. Don’t look for their graduates to enter into academia—its terribly unlikely that any PHC undergrad will have much luck in getting into an elite Ph.D. program. (On the other hand, it’s possible to spot B.A.s from the more mainstream Hillsdale College in respectable professors’ academic histories from time to time.) Whatever inroads have been made, it’s unlikely that the monopoly on knowledge that Harvard, Yale and the other Ivies retain will ever...
...chaos at the starts,” Rodin said. “Watching ‘B’ division from the dock, there were times only half the division was on the line because of the shifts. Being at the right place was more influenced by luck than skill than in most races...
...Since then, she has won race after race and set a new world best for the marathon. She has had success not just in road races and cross-country but on the track too--a far harder arena in which to excel. If she has a little bit of luck in Athens this August, she will add an Olympic gold medal to her collections. But I don't think I'd be breaching confidences if I said that three years ago, many of us never envisioned her winning an Olympic title. She has pleasantly surprised everybody...