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...visual cues are as loud as the singing: from the very beginning, the slogan “Fascismo È Libertà” is projected brightly onto an angularly imperious archway. The villain Scarpia (Greg Cass) is dressed as a blackshirt, with oily hair and a thin mustache suggestive of Hitler. By the end, when Tosca not only takes the traditional suicidal plunge, but tears down a banner with the motto “Viva La Morte” with her, there can be no mistake: we are in Fascist times. Only Mussolini posters could have made...
Both teams came onto the ice in the third period with offense on their mind, and Rogers drew first blood with a wrist shot after taking advantage of a turnover in the neutral zone. But Clarkson responded just 11 seconds later on Louke Oakley’s score into an open net following a bad bounce for Harvard behind its goal...
...Kumaritashvili's accident wore off - and face it, we tend to quickly move on from such tragedy - the Vancouver Games offered the wonderful highs, and head-scratching lows, typical of any Olympics. In hindsight, all the early whining about glitches, like the need for snow to be helicoptered onto a dry mountain, and malfunctioning ice machines, seems silly. We'll remember the likes of Joannie Rochette, the Canadian figure skater who displayed genuine bravery while toe-looping and triple-axling two days after her mother died of a massive heart attack. We'll also feel for Sven Kramer, the Dutch...
Vancouver is lucky it hasn't turned into a nightmare. After Canada beat Slovakia on Friday, thousands of people spilled out of the bars and onto Granville to celebrate. "F___ the U.S.A.," a Canadian fan yelled, anticipating Sunday's gold-medal game against the Americans. As I dodged one oblivious celebrant who almost poked my eye out with a Canadian flag, I bumped into another who was stumbling down the street. I asked a police officer, who was carrying a flask he had just confiscated, if his fellow officers were finding a lot of booze in the streets. "One [officer...
Alma H. Lafler ’13, who was attending the show with the girls of the Harvard sailing team, told us that during halftime, the announcer said that the men of the tech team had prepared a special dance for the ladies. As the crew filed out onto the stage in doctor’s scrubs, Lafler said there was a general feeling that the men's clothes wouldn’t stay on for long. “During the performance, I was like, ‘Hey, I know one of those guys—that?...