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...young Albanian woman who dreams of opening a snack bar in Belgium with her boyfriend and agrees to a sinister plan: she is to marries Claudy, a junkie, for citizenship, kill him, then marry a Russian gangster who will pay richly for a Belgian passport. But the scheme falls apart when Lorna starts to fall for Claudy. The Silence of Lorna, which opens in the U.S. in July, is as much a love story as it is a thriller, and - being a Dardenne film - it has a good dose of social criticism, too. (See pictures of the best Oscar dresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kosovo to Cannes: Arta Dobroshi's Journey to The Silence of Lorna | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...psychological damage that the failure of iconic institutions has on people who are already desperately afraid for their own futures. It is one thing to see a neighbor lose a home. It is another to see companies which have been at the heart of the American business world fall apart in a matter of months. The effect of watching titans fail is as traumatic to the average person as the loss of his own job. Another job will come along, at some point. Citigroup will never come back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Right: Buffett or Obama? | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...Buffett warned his investors over the weekend that "the economy will be in shambles throughout 2009 - and, for that matter, probably well beyond". Still, Buffet went on to note that despite that terrible economic outlook overall, it "does not tell us whether the stock market will rise or fall". Apart from Monday, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Markets Fall from Tokyo to London to New York City | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...deaths could rip the country apart along tribal lines. Na Wai came from the large Balante tribe, whose members fought in the war of independence against Portugal in 1974, and who have dominated the military ever since. Vieira came from the far smaller Pepel tribe. Soldiers drove Vieira from the country in 1999, but he returned in 2005 after he won a presidential election. "This is the final reckoning of accounts between two personalities who always fought each other," Antonio Mazzitelli, regional director for West Africa for the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, told TIME by phone from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Double Murder Jolts Africa's Cocaine Hub | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...wrote Patterson, referring to the scene he called “King of the Jungle.” “This aspect of the show left me wondering what was elegant or even alluring about this atavistic display of primitivism. Would such a performance be possible apart from the history and visual discourse of colonialism that gives it a certain currency?” Former scene director Nicholas J. Navarro ’10 did not expect nor intend to incite the negative responses that the scene provoked. Instead of a racially charged image of black male sexuality...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Posing a Problem | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

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