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...Faculty’s recent vote to shift the concentration deadline back a semester is an opportune time for the government department to revisit the logic behind its sophomore tutorial. It is our hope that over the summer, the government department will contemplate what it is that every government concentrator at Harvard ought to know and revise the sophomore tutorial accordingly...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Gov 97b, Good Riddance | 5/2/2006 | See Source »

...moment. Banished and disinherited within the first couple scenes of the play, he assembles an alliance of the many lords mistreated by Richard and invades England. Despite the title, the play is more about his rise than Richard’s fall. After Richard died, the action shifted to depicting the consolidation of Bolingbroke’s power, but oddly enough, rather than letting the humor die with the most humorous character, Zalisk amped up the farce. There was a scene of an assassination attempt played as a sitcom, complete with broad mugging, slapstick, and a laugh track (provided...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nothing Tragic About ‘Richard’ | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

...coalition called "You Don't Speak For Me" held a press conference denouncing the boycott and illegal immigration. And some Latino business owners declined to give their workers the day off. Dick Jackson, the manager at K&A Lumber in Homestead, Fla., made it clear to his 150 day-shift workers (95% of whom are Hispanic) that they had to be at work today. "I'm kind of old-school, and I think we ought to follow the laws of this country," he said. "But does the country need these people? Without a doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day Without Immigrants: Making a Statement | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

...without a College events board in the past year. Although efforts to institutionalize the success of the Harvard State Fair and the Harvard-Pep rally are commendable, these events will hardly have a dramatic impact on students’ opinions of campus social life. A name change and a shift of finances are simply not enough...

Author: By John F. Voith iii | Title: Overwhelmed Students | 4/28/2006 | See Source »

...park the vehicle, so that he can work on a business proposal in secret. While these moments had many viewers in stitches, fans of Williams’ biting standup or his darker turns in recent comedies like “Death to Smoochy” may find this shift to potty humor lackluster. That being said, “R.V.” is obviously not meant to be a pointed comedy; it’s a crude PG-rated family flick. While it follows a hackneyed story line, pop-culture jokes give the film a degree of freshness. Williams...

Author: By Rachel E. Whitaker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: R.V. | 4/27/2006 | See Source »

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