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...retail locations in Harvard Square. Harvard Book Store and Leavitt & Pearce are among the more famous shops. “There is a wonderful mix of unique stores that you can’t find at the local malls,” Gray said. “People should ask themselves if they’d rather support the independent businesses that make Harvard Square so special, or go to the homogenized malls where much of the world does a lot of shopping.” Jillson also said she noticed a trend of independent stores opening in the past...
...Furthermore, foreign occupiers wear out their welcome quickly in Afghanistan. Ask the Russians. Recall that the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 seeking to protect a threatened client regime, but an armed resistance quickly rose up calling itself the mujahideen. One outsider who aided this resistance force was a wealthy Saudi named Osama bin Laden. Our CIA supported the mujahideen as well. Russian troop strength was eventually increased up to 108,000, and vigorous offensive actions were launched in the countryside, but control could never be established. The effort became a moral and political calamity. Over a decade 13,000 Soviet...
...child back home.) Halfway through the film he has lost much of the majesty and poignance you might expect of such a character, and by the end he's relinquished his grasp on the moviegoer's interest. After all that time spent with the revolutionary leader, viewers still may ask, "So, who is this...
...This is what democracy comes to. It's sloppy and human. Just like asking a kid to count two dozen cupcakes. If you ask human beings to count 2.9 million ballots - even if those human beings are Minnesotans - you're going to get a slightly different number every time. Envelopes whose contents were counted the first night are lost. Absentee ballots that were never counted turn up. Some people get their votes invalidated by accident. The 133 missing ballots, from example, were in an envelope from the not-exactly-shenanigans-prone University Lutheran Church of Hope in Minneapolis that...
...concept of “place”—that of a film bringing the viewer to a new place through description—that he struggled with as his career brought him to cinema. Ultimately, it was the poetry of John Ashbery that led him to ask, “What would it be like to make a film that is the place?” For Dorsky, that new place is the dialectic between the artist’s labor and the well of the viewer’s imagination.—Staff writer Ryan...