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...morbid ending. The women in “Bodas de Sangre” all dominated the stage. The lead female actor, Gabriela Bortolamedi ’10, convincingly portrayed the Bride. Although it was occasionally evident that “Bodas” was her first play, she pulled through strongly in the final scenes and gave a disturbingly good performance as a woman gone mad.But the night’s strongest acting was not that of Bortolamedi, but rather of Gabriela B. Tantillo ’09, who played the deranged Mother. Tantillo effortlessly conveyed the Mother?...
...Iraq since the autumn of 2003, when Poland first sent troops into the country. He was the first Pole killed in action in more than six months and his death comes at a delicate time for a newly elected Polish government, which is under intense domestic pressure to pull out all its people of Iraq by next year. After the British force, which recently pulled out of Basra, the 900-strong Polish unit is the largest international contingent serving with the U.S. in Iraq...
...that relatively small surcharge hardly seems sufficient to overcome the seductive pull of casinos and their multimillion-dollar marketing budgets. "The gambling industry is so big," says Poon Yan-chi, director of the Macau center where Tan delivers his PowerPoint presentations on the evils of gambling. "It's like David and Goliath." David sometimes wins. But that...
...force" spectrum, a guide that determines which weapon a police officer should use in any given situation. Yet these standards vary from city to city, and no universal code applies to the country's law enforcement force as a whole. "If a guy has a stick, you don't pull a shotgun out," says John Ryan, a former CIA agent and assistant director of the special investigations group of the Government Accountability Office, who oversaw a 2005 study on the use-of-force policies regarding Tasers. Beyond those basics, however, individual police departments have the freedom to create their...
Harvard Stadium reached yet another milestone Saturday afternoon: its first day game under the lights.In wet and windy conditions, Dartmouth (2-5, 2-2 Ivy) gave the Crimson (5-2, 4-0) a game, but 11,005 fans saw Harvard pull through and notch another important Ivy League victory, 28-21, knocking the Big Green out of title contention.“A very solid, workmanlike victory,” said Crimson head coach Tim Murphy. “They made us work for everything. I thought Dartmouth was a really well-coached football team—they played extremely...