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...Green, sports a naval captain’s hat—all visible to the audience.It is rare to find a show where all of the principals are great—“H.M.S. Pinafore” nearly achieves just this.Noah Van Niel ’08 plays Ralph, a sailor who has fallen for the captain’s daughter Josephine (Chelsey J. Forbess ’07). In a comedy where most characters are cartoons, Van Niel portrays Ralph with sincerity and depth. He sings with feeling and a face that begs for sympathy, winning the hearts...
...course, he's not alone at that. It has often fallen to artists high and low to frame the choices that matter most: Harriet Beecher Stowe on slavery, Aldous Huxley on "progress," George Orwell on tyranny, Ralph Ellison on race. We could debate which debate has most refocused the Iraq war: the one moderated by Tim Russert or the one by Jon Stewart. When Crichton takes aim at genetic engineering and argues that "the future is closer than you think - get used to it," he is likely to shape opinion more than all the bioethics seminars and Senate debates combined...
...pointers from Holy Cross (4-0). As the Crusader offense gelled, the wheels fell off Harvard’s due to a confounding match-up zone. “Harvard was doing some good things, pushing the ball, beating us off the dribble,” Holy Cross coach Ralph Willard said. “We went to the 1-3-1 [zone] in the last five minutes to stop the dribble penetration, it worked out really well.” Just minutes earlier, highly touted Crusader guards Keith Simmons and Torey Thomas made up for their early-game dormancy...
...Today a new generation of hedge-fund billionaires and Chinese and Russian kleptocrats is part of an ocean of capital flowing into galleries and auction houses. "There seem to be no limits to what people will pay, and in every kind of art," says art-tax specialist Ralph Lerner, whose clients include some of the country's biggest collectors...
...This time, many foreign companies seem set to make a tidy profit, not least because the hotel business is one industry in which Chinese firms are not yet equipped to undercut overseas rivals while also providing the requisite quality of service. "You can knock off Prada or Montblanc," says Ralph Grippo, China manager for the Ritz-Carlton hotels. "But there's no way you can knock off luxury service. It's about human beings and experience. That's not something you can duplicate." Ford agrees. "There's no Chinese company right now that can go toe-to-toe with Marriott...