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...cinemas nationwide, I Saw the Sun, a controversial film about a Kurdish family whose two sons find themselves on opposing sides of the conflict, is No. 1 at the box office. And while using Kurdish spelling remains officially forbidden, people make a point of using their Kurdish names when they can. "Rojhat," says one bright-eyed 29-year-old lawyer, extending a hand when I meet him on a recent trip to the Kurdish region of Turkey. "Not Resat". (Unlike Turkish, Kurdish uses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Turkey, Signs of Change for the Kurds | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...Catholic Church teaches that abortion and stem-cell research is wrong and forbids its faithful from supporting such practices, whether directly in person or indirectly through the ballot box. In inviting a president whose recent agenda prominently has contradicted those tenets, Notre Dame intimates that the Catholic truth it purportedly upholds is malleable and appropriately sacrificed for the fleeting prestige that a presidential commencement address would confer...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Obama and the Fightin’ Irish | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

...advantage. To be sure, many Type A's turn out to be wealthy, but we all know plenty of Type A's who live average lives (think of your persnickety high-school math teacher, or that Type A mom down the street who slices the carrots for the lunch box just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Type A Personalities Have the Edge in Procreating | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...eighth, senior Jon Roberts plated himself and Reynolds with a two-run shot to left, setting the table for a dramatic ninth inning. Penn reliever Vince Voiro failed to record an out in the frame, yielding a single to senior Taylor Meehan before Rogers stepped into the box. The left fielder capped a five-hit, five-RBI day by smashing his second home run over the left-center field wall, bringing the score to 11-10. With Voiro gone, Tom Grandieri faired no better in the relief role, yielding singles to Douglas and Albright before Reynolds sacrifice bunted. After intentionally...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All-Around Performance Rewarded in Sweep | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...question that 3-D has an appeal to an industry that, though the box office has been robust in these recession days, is facing a slump in DVD sales and the prospect of hard times. Monsters vs Aliens, which opened Friday, is bound to be the weekend's big picture. Cameron's 3-D Avatar, his first feature film since Titanic in 1997, is the gotta-see event of 2009; and any film in the process by Spielberg, Jackson, Robert Zemeckis or Robert Rodriguez should be exciting, if only because the directors will be juiced playing with this marvelous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 3-D or Not 3-D: That Is the Question | 3/28/2009 | See Source »

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