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...series of poems written in loose sonnet form. Komunyakaa starts by evoking the savage war of primitive man (“An obsidian ax. A lion-skin drum”) and works his way through ancient war, through Gilgamesh, through Cain and Abel, through the visceral, bloody war of the past, to the darker and more terrifying present of torpedoes and secret wars...
...Cold War as the point person for anyone who wanted to cross the Berlin Wall--in either direction. Over three decades he helped more than 200,000 people leave East Germany, including American pilot Gary Powers, whose release he infamously arranged in exchange for Soviet spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abel. Though Vogel considered himself a humanitarian, his reputation was tarnished after the Cold War ended and he was convicted of blackmail. Upon appeal, he was cleared--and his benevolent reputation restored...
...Lang's flawed masterpiece is set in a futuristic city divided into two castes: the workers, who have to live and toil underground, and the rich and privileged, able to enjoy the good life in huge skyscrapers above. Presiding over them all is god-like tycoon Joh Fredersen (Alfred Abel). The clear separation of society starts to break down when his son, Freder (played by Gustav Fröhlich) falls in love with Maria (Brigitte Helm), the workers' beautiful leader. A complicated plot ensues, revolving around a robot created in Maria's image, and the film culminates in a revolution...
...Abel and Junon Vuillard (Jean-Paul Roussillon and Catherine Deneuve) convene their three grown children (Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud) and their kids for the sort of holiday games you'll find in many family reunions: musical beds, generational scores-settling and the ripping off of psychic scabs. Amid all the melodrama - Junon has liver cancer and needs a bone-marrow transplant from someone of her blood - the conversation is bantering, often affectionate. In this chatty 2-1/2hr. film, Desplechin (Kings and Queen) seems to be going for the old French New Wave recipe of emotional warmth...
...total of 3,753 students from 516 colleges in the United States and Canada. Results were released by the College’s mathematics department on Friday. The winning team members were Tiankai Liu ’08, Alison B. Miller ’08 and Zachary R. Abel ’10, each of whom received a $1,000 award. “It’s surreal,” Abel said about the win. “It was nothing that I was expecting.” Arnav Tripathy ’11, who was named...