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...website, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club describes William Shakespeare’s “Pericles”—written in part by the much less eloquent George Wilkins—as a “rarely produced tragi-comic-histori-vulgar monstrosity of the Shakespeare canon.” A late and obscure work, “Pericles” tells the story of the eponymous prince of Tyre. According to Meryl H. Federman ’11, producer and president of the Hyperion Shakespeare Company (HSC), Pericles “is the great guy that horrible...

Author: By Alyssa A. Botelho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pericles | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...come under increasing attack by ranchers, farmers and loggers fed up with federal rules about land use, water rights and endangered habitats. In Nevada, where more than 80% of the state is public land, federal employees have been refused service in restaurants, taunted at public gatherings and harassed with vulgar gestures. In March a bomb exploded in the forest rangers' district headquarters in Carson City, shattering windows and damaging the office of the chief ranger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Threat from the Patriot Movement | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...Coulter made news at the 2007 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) by calling John Edwards a vulgar term for a homosexual. At CPAC 2009, Rush Limbaugh urged conservatives to "stamp out" those in their movement who thought the era of Ronald Reagan had ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans Must Embrace the Vital Center | 2/15/2010 | See Source »

...essential that jihadists believe they can credibly justify horrible criminal acts as righteous before they undertake them to both themselves, the victims and the world," says another French counter-terrorism official. "That has allowed AQIM to embrace something it had regarded as the lowly work of vulgar crooks and Mafia types before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Threat in N. Africa: Kidnapping Foreigners | 2/6/2010 | See Source »

Most of the texts that Kaiser incorporates in Literature and Sexuality seem “vulgar for the sake of being vulgar,” he says...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kaiser’s Class All About Sex | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

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