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...writer’s humble background became a factor later, when the Signet Society??Harvard’s social club of arts and letters—almost did not accept Updike into their cloistered circle, since he could not pay the membership fee. Then-Crimson President Michael Maccoby ’54, who nominated Updike to the Signet, said that he convinced the Signet to waive Updike’s fees after telling them that if they did not allow him in, they would regret it for the rest of their lives...
...using the virtual reality site SecondLife, makes no secret of his online footprint or his copyleft orientation. It was this mischievous-looking 70-year-old law professor who served a decade ago as the motive force behind the founding of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society??an organization that grapples with the developing legal issues surrounding the use of the Internet and has been dubbed “a den of copyleft activists” by copy-conservatives...
...that Lotte first recognizes Andromache’s son as a doll but later treats it as a real person. Lotte’s (and the audience’s) intuitive failure to recognize the play’s barbies as real people seems to be a statement about society??s callousness in treating suffering people as plastic objects. Lotte admits that the British media disregards the suffering of Troy’s women to focus on her own “heroic” escape; it is this sort of skewed dehumanization that commits the Trojan victims...
You’d be surprised at what can happen when you spend two hours a hotel suite. In the Kirkland House Drama Society??s production of Suites—based on a collection of Neil Simon plays—four sets of characters love, fight, and forgive in four different storylines that all take place in a hotel suite. Alcohol flows, expletives fly, and arguments rage—check out all the drama (and a surprise cross-dressing guest star) after the jump...
...University of Texas professor condemned pornography as the depraved and even apocalyptic embodiment of society??s ills at last night’s kick-off event for the annual “Take Back the Night” movement created to support survivors of sexual violence. “Pornography is what the end of the world looks like,” said professor Robert W. Jensen, who blamed capitalism, white supremacy, and racism for the spread of increasingly violent heterosexual pornography. Jensen said that pornography becomes increasingly violent, racially charged, and degrading towards women to increase profit...