Shakespeare on campus

Sagar Pandit has been engaging in ferocious sword fights for the past week. The 19-year-old Romeo (not of the roadside variety) is preparing to fight Juliet’s cousin in his upcoming performance of a parody of Shakespeare’s works for Ithaka, St. Xavier’s College literary festival, next week.

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Musings of a Russophile: Russian music, like Russian literature, is always excited about something

When I am asked by a Russian why I came to Russia, I generally answer: “I like the music!” He nods, smiles, and says, “I understand.” Economic opportunity, sense of adventure, this is what the American wants to hear. But the Russian understands other reasons.

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Kathryn Erskine's award-winning 'Mockingbird' will be nutritious reading for young people

Kathryn Erskine lived near Virginia Tech in the spring of 2007, when a lone gunman shot 33 people. The catastrophe moved her to write "Mockingbird," which last month won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

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