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Aron has interspersed humor within the tragic content of the bigoted and bloody Algerian war. Such a combination may be offensive to some if not taken in the intended allegorical context. The Harvard community could only benefit from more controversial and creative theater experiences like this...
...standard versions of the opera. The project was a gamble: A not-so-young Pavarotti left concerts in front of royalty and football fans to tackle the role of Otello, a notoriously difficult one, for the first time. What's more, Pavarotti brought his radiant tenor to a tragic role usually sung by deeper voices. This calculated risk almost turned to disaster when most of the principals and the conductor took ill before the performances that were to provide the material for the recording...
Over the past year or so, the Harvard community has hardly been immune to violence. In the most tragic case, Bunting Institute fellow Mary Jo Frug was stabbed to death near Brattle Street last April. That same week, a woman was raped near the Quad. Two weeks later, a Boston resident was knifed outside the Border Cafe, just a one-minute walk from the Yard...
...Providence College took the stand, Tyson finally had to cede his searchlight-spotlight to a co-star. At that moment the sense of the procedure finally shifted from a test of a celebrity's mettle, or the dilemma of Tyson the legend vs. Tyson the man, to a familiarly tragic story of men's dangerous urges and women's rightful fears...
...these policies, along with a number of others, have alienated an overwhelming number of conservatives within the Republican party. But even this alienation may not have been politically fatal to Bush's constituency. What is even more tragic for Bush's candidacy is his alienation of fiscal conservatives as well...