Mezzo-soprano Wendy White, who fell Friday night when a platform buckled on the set of Gounod’s “Faust” at the Metropolitan Opera, seems not to have been hurt badly.
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Vaclav Havel, 75, Playwright, Humanitarian, Leader of the Velvet Revolution
“He served 14 years as president, wrote 19 plays, inspired a film and a rap song and remained one of his generation’s most seductively nonconformist writers. All the while, he came to personify the soul of the Czech nation.”
Have You No Aspiration Left, Britain?
Geoff Dyer on Julian Barnes’ Booker prizewinning novel, The Sense of an Ending: “There seemed less to get second time around. If such a thing is possible, I didn’t get it even more than I hadn’t got it first time around.”
Peru Gets Its Bones (And Jewelry) Back, A Century Later, From Yale
Hundreds of Inca artifacts that weren’t stolen, but weren’t clearly given either, have returned to Peru after a century at Yale, a lawsuit and some angry alumni intervention. “It’s like bringing back the family goods,” says a Yale anthropology professor.
What’s The Internet Of Things? We’re All About To Find Out
“The Internet likes you, really likes you,” writes Steve Lohr. “But now — nothing personal, mind you — the Internet is growing up and lifting its gaze to the wider world.” Yep: Here comes Skynet.