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...reminiscent of Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned) - most memorably in a scene in which a hardened gangbanger forces a child protégé to choose which of two even younger gangbangers to execute. Such heartbreaking moments have helped City of God amass international awards and become one of Brazil's all-time box-office champs, with more than $15 million taken so far worldwide. This isn't the first golden age of Latin American film. In the '40s and '50s, Mexico's cinema was so well regarded that Europeans like...
Harvey will finish his career 12th on Harvard’s all-time scoring list (1,208) and second in career three-pointers (181). He is also one of only six players in school history to amass 150 steals...
...Film has so much power because we're conditioned primarily by what we see and hear." Someday, the rinpoche hopes, he'll make a movie based on the life of Siddhartha, as seen through the eyes of an imprisoned Tibetan monk, but until he can achieve the recognition?and amass the funds?necessary for such an ambitious project, he'll continue to build his r?sum? with smaller, independent movies like this...
...quest for a nuclear weapon has obsessed the Pyongyang regime since the 1950s, when Kim Il Sung began working to amass an arsenal potent enough to deter a feared U.S. attack. Though Pyongyang has made gestures suggesting it was ready to make concessions in exchange for aid and security guarantees, neither Kim Il Sung nor his son gave up the raw material for bombmaking or renounced the desire to obtain the Bomb; in their mind, doing so would sap the country's bargaining strength and make the regime's survival dependent on its neighbors' goodwill...
Aaron J. Greenspan ’05, the student responsible for launching the site, was also the driving force behind this fall’s lecturer-swap in Economics 1010a, “Microeconomic Theory.” Greenspan managed to amass a persuasive stack of complaints about Lecturer of Economics Robert H. Neugeborn ’81 after Economics Department Chair Oliver Hart told The Crimson, “If one person complains and no one else does, we’re probably not going to respond. There has to be some sort of critical mass...