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...report can be seductive at first glance," PSLM member Stephen N. Smith '02 wrote in an e-mail message. "Upon further review, it appears plain to me that the lives of workers will not be sufficiently or substantially benefited until Harvard makes policy changes that can be implemented effectively and that see workers as equal and important members of our community...
...Archibald Craven, Mary's emotionally challenged uncle and guardian, Matthew Anderson '03 brings to life a multi-dimensional character struggling to deal with the loss of his wife and struggling to deal with Mary, this new life-force who invades his forbidding Victorian household. Anderson's singing improves upon his effortless ability to act with both the living and the dead. His impressive timbre adds new layers of meaning to Lucy Simon's beautiful and haunting melodies...
...South African artist William Kentridge, is a beautifully flowing piece that builds momentum as it progresses. A peaceful black-and-white beginning is altered when a blue line emerges and jump-starts everything in the film. Electricity, telephone lines, population growth and pages and pages of numbers all emerge upon contact with the blue line, until at the end everything blows up in a series of explosions. What's the message here? Is this piece about a fear of technology, a call for awareness or perhaps the explosive nature of South African apartheid? Whatever it is, the viewer pays attention...
MacKinnon's stance is by far the stronger, but she and other VAWA advocates need to understand that on such matters one needs to tread carefully. Too often, supporters of civil rights bend to the cloying, putrescent of political correctness instead of relying upon substantive judicial precedent and hard facts. Even the most genuine, visceral appeal against gender violence cannot serve as the basis for the kind of far-reaching, personal consequences that exist under VAWA...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf?_ is both refreshingly dark and painfully funny. An exploration of possibilities that we are, understandably, reluctant to consider, the play calls upon us to simultaneously loathe, pity and identify with aspects of each of its characters. As we see more and more of our own petty, vindictive natures, self-delusionment, ambition and naivet played out on the stage before us, we come to understand this celebration of a love too strong to be destroyed and an anger too intense to be abandoned. When the final blackout comes, you _will_ be afraid...