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...Prado Museum's massive new Goya exhibition hangs a muted watercolor titled One Can't Look. Completed some time in the years before 1815, it depicts a prisoner, his torso draped in cloth, with ropes dangling from his tensed limbs. There is no hood over his head, no box beneath his feet, and what initially appear to be outstretched arms turn out, upon closer inspection, to be tattered folds of cloth. Yet it is almost impossible to look at this small work and not be reminded of the more recent image of a hooded prisoner at Abu Ghraib, an artless...
...Sony Pictures, the production company behind “21”, took a Clintonian tone of indignation when addressing charges of box-office bias. Didn’t the two attractive Asians on the poster mean anything to them? Look how attractive and Asian they...
...Perhaps it’s not surprising that (like “The Pursuit of Happyness”) American audiences loved 21. The film scored a relative victory at the box office, pulling in $24 million on its opening weekend. Presently, its U.S. gross climbs beyond twice that. Whether the film would have done as well embracing the idiosyncrasies of its real-life prototype, we won’t ever know—though, given the trend toward quirky American filmmaking, it might have been worth a shot...
...student groups from having to cancel at the last minute because of a lack of alcohol teams and police details available. The report also recommends limiting large events to Harvard undergraduates and up to two guests per student and requiring all large events to be ticketed through the Harvard Box Office. “These policies are all intended to help students,” McLoughlin said, adding that he would need two main things from students in cooperation—advance notice and awareness of capacity concerns. Over the next month McLoughlin and the subcommittee—which...
...days through mountain paths to reach polling booths, others lined up for hours on deserted streets, braving threats of violence from extremist groups-yet, by day's end, nearly 65% of the nation's voting population had exercised their franchise. Politicians of all factions proudly strutted before the ballot box, wreathed in flower garlands, sporting triumphant smiles. They were all participating in a process that aims to replace Nepal's 240-year-old monarchy with a secular republic-a transition that, although turbulent, has given this impoverished nation of 27 million newfound optimism...