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...screen time. Directed by Jon Favreau, “Zathura’s” plot moves fluidly from each board game challenge to the next. Like his “Elf,” (is he cornering the market on holiday kid flicks?) there are bits of adult humor peppered throughout the movie, particularly in the Astronaut’s sarcastic undertone. This “Swingers” vet still knows what’s money. Despite a noble attempt to appeal to a wide demographic, the movie is about thirty minutes too long; after a while, even...
...school, coast into college and never much worry about getting the rent paid or keeping the fridge filled. But before they graduated, their sense of drift began to trouble them. At about the same time, their father sold off the company, and with it went the cozy billets in adult life that had always served as an emotional backstop for the boys...
...rare to see a former Fox Kid, a Disney Fashion Show star, or a grown-up child actor from Power Rangers commercials walking Cambridge’s streets. More often, one sees an exceptional young adult who exudes creative energy and woefully over-commits to her extracurriculars while managing to be all smiles and laughter. But as both a typically dedicated Harvard student and a longtime performer, Lauren L. Jackson ’07 manages to defy the odds...
...remain powerful barriers in Africa's fight against AIDS. Misinformation, bigotry and indifference can be found everywhere, from tiny villages to presidential offices. Nowhere is that more so than in Swaziland, a mountainous southern African country with the world's highest rate of HIV infection. An astonishing 42.6% of adult Swazis are HIV-positive. It doesn't help that Swaziland's ruler, King Mswati, 37, who is Africa's last absolute monarch, sets such a bad example. Mswati may advocate abstinence and faithfulness, but he hardly practices what he preaches. In September he chose his 13th wife, a 17-year...
Many mainline lites dropped Lewis, and his adult works might have gathered dust--were it not that Evangelicalism had just emerged dewy and hungry from the rigid chrysalis of Fundamentalism, eager for anyone, even a high-church Anglican, to popularize basic Christian tenets. Today it is Evangelicals who hold most of the Lewis conferences and write most of the Lewis books. They often present Mere Christianity to prospective converts or joyfully pass copies to those who are born again, along with a Gospel of John. Says Christian author Nancy Guthrie, whose new devotional The One Year Book of Hope...