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While “Cloud Nine” attempts to “put a flag in new lands,” this Loeb Ex production doesn’t manage to score. Playing until April 26, “Cloud Nine,” directed by James M. Leaf ’09-’10 and produced by Anusha Deshpande ’09, is a commentary on gender roles and sexual repression that does not manage to be insightful enough or provide a big enough laugh to make the three-hour production worthwhile. The cast makes...

Author: By Kerry A. Goodenow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Forced Farce Rains on ‘Cloud Nine’ | 4/20/2008 | See Source »

...priestly vows. "If Lugo can lie to the Pope, he can lie to anyone," says Lino Oviedo, a former army general who is running a close third in polls - and is running only because the Supreme Court last year overturned his conviction for allegedly leading a 1996 coup attempt. Says Felipe Lopez, 49, an unemployed laborer who plans to vote for Oviedo, "Lugo was a man of the church and he gave it all up for what? For ambition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paraguay Chooses Between Firsts | 4/19/2008 | See Source »

...territory. "It would help to have an international task force and legitimate power to apprehend and prosecute, but who's going to pay for that?" asked Kratz. "Realistically this will be a short term measure or something that won't happen for a long time." Until then, technology will attempt to fill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Piracy Sparks High-Tech Defenses | 4/18/2008 | See Source »

...moving man in his summer, becomes a political blogger, and eventually publishes a book. Mark spends most of the novel in Syracuse writing his dissertation on a minor figure of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Sam ends up visiting Israel and the occupied territories after failing in his attempt to write the Zionist epic and then getting fed up with his job as a temp at a bank.However, the novel is burdened by a sense that nothing happens. It stagnates because the characters just aren’t truly relatable and can’t evoke sympathy. They are all narrow...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Literary Men’ Lives On Ideas | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...then digs a hole, diverting the river into a waterfall. Small Björk and the clay being drop down, flying through a tunnel of water into the hands of the river god. This whole video lasts almost eight minutes. I really wish I could make fun of this attempt at highbrow art, which combines both CG and puppeteering into a hodgepodge of crazy. But how can one find humor in something so truly bizarre, something so lacking in any kind of anchor to reality? So in the end, I think the only word that truly describes this deliciously awful...

Author: By Bram A. Strochlic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Bjork | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

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