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...thrilled to return to Harvard in a challenging new role which will draw upon my careers in both the public and private sectors," Jackson said...
...function of theater is to change the world, then the size and diversity of the audience is of the utmost importance. Perhaps in our day of deconstructed meanings and relative truths such a lofty goal for a few actors strutting and fretting their hour upon the stage is laughable. But history, at least, is on the side of such a grand design. It is not without reason that theater attendance in ancient Greece was a civic duty, that of all the means of entertainment and expression in Renaissance England theater was the most closely censored by the crown (and that...
...song reflects upon Ali's boxing career and is "meant to look back on the highs and lows of life," Soo said...
...Althing decided to exile him for three years, so Erik sailed west to explore a land he had heard about from sailors who had been blown off course. Making his way around a desolate coast, he came upon magnificent fjords flanked by lush meadows and forests of dwarf willow and birch, with glacier-strewn mountain ranges towering in the distance. This "green land," he decided (in what might have been a clever bit of salesmanship), would be a perfect place to live. In 985 Erik returned triumphantly to Iceland and enlisted a group of followers to help him establish...
...prettiest young thing in his vicinity. She is Clara Bowden, 19, Jamaican and missing the entire upper deck of her teeth. That is only the literal manifestation of her rootlessness, for she has lost her faith (Jehovah's Witnesses) and loses her mother, who kicks her out upon learning of her miscegenation. Archie and Clara are supposed to save each other. Instead, they spend their lives accommodating an impulsive moment...