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...What I meant was that I would not have become the filmmaker that I am if I had not been living in an occupied country and not seen an enormous amount of violence. This is my vision of the world because I grew up amongst bombing and the ruins and the dead. War was the norm and peace was the exception...
...light of the other big news from the cup: the murder of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer. But in India, where people have been eagerly anticipating this event since, well, since the last one ended four years ago, the poor performance has been cause for despair even - or perhaps especially - amongst those for whom despair has become a way of life. So far, save a few demonstrators holding up signs calling on the coach Greg Chappell or the captain Rahul Dravid to resign, and a few cases where pictures of players were set alight for the cameras, that despair...
...lyrics notwithstanding, I seem to possess a relatively normal facebook profile, as nearly all college students do. Being on Facebook, at least at Harvard, might as well be a requirement that goes along with Expos as a ritual everyone must endure. While there are the few and the proud amongst us who shun Facebook, they are an all too miniscule minority. We’ve become a cult of addictees to the point that the phrase “drunken wall-post” is now a lexical mainstay...
...Studies 171, The Spanish Civil War from Both Sides of the Border.”“Tierra y Libertad” depicts the struggles of an English Communist, David, who joins in the fight against Franco’s Fascism, only to confront the massive infighting occurring amongst the anti-Franco’s forces, the Republican anarchists, and the communists.Directed by Ken Loach, the film conveys a clear political message and agenda, falling heavily on the side of the Republicans. Within that camp, the film sympathizes with the local militias and anarchists. The film does simplify...
...through the titular two weeks. The eldest son, played by Ben Chaplan, is unable to cry for his mother. His performance is touching—that is, when one is not distracted by hints of a foreign accent and skin color that calls to mind a foreign exchange student amongst his freckle-faced, whitebread siblings. Julianne Nicholson, playing the only girl of the four and her mother’s best friend, refuses to leave the house even for a moment and is constantly doling out advice from self-help books such as “How to Die?...