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'Machine' looks at past
By Susan Kovar | October 26Emma Tai's '07.5 "The Forgetting Machine," investigates the connections between history, memory and time.
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Welcome to Sock and Buskin's 'Funnyhouse'
By Susan Kovar | September 28The "self" splinters into many "selves" for Sarah, a young black woman in New York in Adrienne Kennedy's play "Funnyhouse of a Negro," first performed in 1964. Now, in a frightening and acidly funny Sock and Buskin production, "Funnyhouse" compels its audience to consider the experience of Sarah within ...
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Third wave of spring breakers rebuild NOLA
By Susan Kovar | April 6College student volunteers flocked to New Orleans in droves after Hurricane Katrina wrecked the Gulf Coast in 2005. Now, several years later, students with Habitat for Humanity, Brown/RISD Hillel, the Multi-Faith Council and the Brown Christian Fellowship spent this past spring break lending a hand ...
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Following tree toppling, sculpture to be dismantled
By Susan Kovar | March 13Patrick Dougherty's installation of saplings on the Front Green was supposed to be on view for only a year, but it has lasted for a year and a half. But after an elm tree fell on the sculpture last weekend, the University is finally considering taking it down.
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Lack of attendees stifles SUBU meeting
By Susan Kovar | March 11The Student Union of Brown University cancelled its general body meeting Tuesday night after about 25 students, less than its quorum of one percent of the student body - 59 students - appeared in the Crystal Room in Alumnae Hall. After calling to reschedule the meeting, students opened the floor for ...
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Top Fishmonger: Captain's Catch
By Susan Kovar | March 9Captain's Catch1702 Mineral Springs Avenue, North Providence (click for map)(401) 353-FISHOpen 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mon. to Sat., 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sun.
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Mock trial headed to nationals
By Susan Kovar | March 5This year, the Mock Trial team has reached greater heights than ever before, as two of three teams qualified for Silver Nationals from recent regional tournaments, which will be held March 15 to 16 in Tucson, Ariz.
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Alum's journalism award a first for blogs
By Susan Kovar | March 3Josh Marshall MA'93 PhD'03, editor and publisher of the blog Talking Points Memo, recently received the 2007 George Polk Award for Legal Reporting for his leading coverage of the firings of several U.S. attorneys last year.
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Cofer urges poets to remember roots
By Susan Kovar | October 5The Expository Writing Program inaugurated its Great Writers Lecture Series Wednesday night with a speech by Judith Ortiz Cofer, boundary-defying author and professor of English and creative writing at the University of Georgia. The event, "Writing the Bi-Cultural Memoir," took place in Salomon 001. ...
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Adviser to Annan touts recent U.N. accomplishments
By Susan Kovar | September 26United Nations reform is actually in the making, despite what the news media might portray, Stephen Stedman, special adviser to the U.N. secretary-general, told a full audience Monday in MacMillan 115. The research director and principal drafter for the Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Threats, ...
