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...uncanny portrayal of Charlie Chaplin and seven years after his last of several well-publicized trips to either rehab or jail, Downey, 43, is finally claiming the career he was always meant to have, one befitting a fiercely talented, eccentric and magnetic leading man. Later this summer, Downey will appear as an Australian Method actor who is overly committed to playing a black soldier in Ben Stiller's raucous satire of filmmaking and war movies, Tropic Thunder. And in the fall comes another plum role, as a journalist who discovers a schizophrenic Juilliard violinist (Jamie Foxx) living on the streets...
...uninitiated eye, the exuberant and technically brilliant prints that walked down spring runways at Dries Van Noten, Prada and Dolce & Gabbana might evoke a trip to the lush gardens of Giverny or Tahiti. Or they could appear to be the result of a completely different kind of psychedelic trip. But to those in the know?designers, fabric-mill owners and trend spotters?the plethora of prints this season summons something much closer to home: Ratti, the fabric and printmaking house based in Como, Italy...
...statement amounted to an overture toward Sadr, whose unilateral cease-fire last year was a major factor in lowering levels of violence across Iraq. The Americans appear eager to restore the truce, which has essentially broken down as U.S. troops back Iraqi forces fighting militiamen in Sadr City. But Sadr, whose bloc of political loyalists long ago boycotted the Iraqi government, sounded a note of defiance that seemed to slam the door on hopes of peaceful resolution...
...conducted the very first housing poll for The Crimson and published the results showing which upperclass Houses were popular, much to the chagrin of the administration, which preferred all Houses to appear equally appealing...
...Dems huffed and puffed—the affair speaks to the state of conservatism at Harvard. Unquestionably, conservatives (and to an even greater extent, Republicans) are a minority on Harvard’s campus, yet they are able to garner attention—and moreover, to appear exceedingly reasonable—thanks to debacles like this one. More astute liberals realize this paradox. A member of the Dems, who wished to remain anonymous in order to avoid strain within his student group, told me he thought the denouncement had been “a missed opportunity?...