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Cecilia M. Miniucchi. a graduate of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is the anti-Hollywood director that so many independent filmmakers aspire to be. A critically lauded documentary filmmaker, Miniucchi screened her debut feature film “Expired” at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last weekend. Despite her first-time role as writer and director, Miniucchi reveals her technical and spiritual divergence from mainstream film and her acute cultural consciousness.A love story with the soul of a documentary, “Expired” follows two parking enforcement officers through Miniucchi’s vision...
Days after a March 2007 public meeting on the project, attended by nearly 400 West Texas residents--none of whom supported it--the fight against La Entrada began. Local businesses sold STOP LA ENTRADA T shirts; residents joined letter-writing campaigns and launched anti-Entrada blogs. Some Marfans have devised creative ways to fight the corridor. Gary Oliver, 60, a political cartoonist for the local newspaper, has composed a protest song on his accordion. "Move to Marfa for the peaceful life,/ So far away from the stress and strife," he sings. "Then you put your ear down on the highway...
...years ago - and many of the state's legendary progressives have gathered under the old pecan trees to weep in their beer and berate conservative Democrats and, later in the state's history, Republicans. It is the spot where in 1972, back in the days when they were anti-establishment foot soldiers in the George McGovern campaign, the young, long-haired Bill Clinton and his bespectacled law student wife Hillary drank beer and talked passionately about politics. Almost four decades later, many of their friends will be amongst the Democratic power players who get one of the exclusive seats...
...judicial killings, torture and arbitrary arrests, was picked up by the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) in May, 2007. According to the Human Rights Watch report, he was kept in a detention center, beaten, threatened with execution and "forced to confess to - and implicate friends and colleagues in - anti-state and anti-military activity, and to smuggling of sensitive national security information to foreign organizations." After 22 hours and much pressure from foreign embassies in Bangladesh, authorities released Khalil. After a month in hiding he fled to Sweden, which granted him asylum and where he remains...
...unclear exactly what could set off violence in Syria. But it should be kept in mind that Hizballah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah was extremely close to Mughniyah. As Lebanon boils, Nasrallah will be sorely tempted to take revenge, whether it's against anti-Syrian Lebanese leaders, Israel, or even the United States...