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If Bertolt Brecht and Steve Jobs collaborated on a play about economic downturn, the end result might look something like the lifeless, sluggish production of Clifford Odets’s “Paradise Lost” currently running at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.). Brecht would insist on calling...

Author: By Ali R. Leskowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A.R.T.’s ‘Paradise’ Feels More Like Hell | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

After stepping away from the door and breathing a sigh of relief that the beeping had abated, he realized that he had left his phone charging in his room. So, he did what any rational student would do in his situation: he updated his Facebook status.?...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Locked in the Library | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

Cavaradossi, of course, is an artist. So is Tosca: as a celebrated singer, she premieres a cantata on the same night that Scarpia arrests Cavaradossi. Subtler, though, is the way in which Cass’s Scarpia is framed as a sort of artist. Scarpia has an extensive, obsessive conception...

Author: By Spencer B.L. Lenfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: LHO Reenvisions 'Tosca' in Fascist Rome | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

Do you think there is such a thing as a rational market? -Femi Awolusi, Denver I believe in markets, but I don't believe that you can have unregulated, unfettered markets. Since the beginning of time, they have been prone to excesses. The key thing is to make sure we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Henry Paulson | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

Suggesting the possibility of a General Education category titled “Reason and Faith,” the report raised serious questions about the role of religion in the classroom. "Reason and Faith" was eventually scrapped after serious opposition from faculty members like psychology professor Steven A. Pinker, who?...

Author: By George T. Fournier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kremlin on the Charles? | 2/21/2010 | See Source »

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