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...four of Bendorf’s years at Harvard have been centered on honing her craft. “Freshman fall I discovered that I didn’t want to be a math major,” says Bendorf, who proceeded to create a special concentration: Dramatic Literature and Practice. She describes the concentration as over 50 percent English Literature, with supplementary courses in acting, stage design, dramaturgy, and other performance-based classes. She even enrolled in a one-on-one tutorial about Stephen Sondheim with her advisor, Professor Robert Scanlan. “What other Dramatic Arts courses...
...Choosing a school without a theater major was a wild move at the time,” says Friedman. She knew she wanted to work in the business, but decided against conservatory training. “Everyone in the industry that I knew told me to go to a liberal arts school,” says the English concentrator with a secondary in Dramatic Arts. “I thought maybe they were telling me that because they didn’t think I was going to make it.” However, Friedman seems to have underestimated...
Suffering a decline in popularity largely because of the global financial crisis and Hungary's high levels of unemployment, Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai's Socialist Party suffered a major setback in the country's first round of parliamentary elections on April 11. Although the final allotment of seats won't be determined until after a second round of polling on April 25, the center-right Fidesz party looks to have won 206 spots in the 386-member parliament, while the extremist, far-right Jobbik party, a nationalist group that some accuse of anti-Semitism, won an estimated 26 seats...
...started arguing that gay and lesbian people are not discriminated against just because of their sexual conduct, but because they are seen as violating the rules of gender,” he said, adding that this notion of common resistance to gender stereotypes and the gender binary played a major role in uniting the movement. However, he cautioned against using this as the dominant framework...
...used nuclear energy for nearly 50 years and since the 1970s has gone from being an electricity importer to the largest exporter in the world. France itself obtains 78.8 percent of its electricity from nuclear sources, and with its pressurized water reactors, France has yet to experience any major accidents...