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...Name of the Father Daniel Day-Lewis is brilliant as Gerry Conlon, the Belfast lad falsely accused of I.R.A. terrorism and imprisoned with his long-suffering da. Jim Sheridan's movie is informed by an angry passion for justice, by a splendid ensemble of actors and by some of the year's most skillfully kinetic filmmaking...
...Israel maintains the rusted wreckage of the convoys as memorials along the highway. ''I remember the names of those who died inside those vehicles,'' Rabin says. By age 32 he was a general; 12 years later, he became chief of staff and devised the tactics for Israel's brilliant victory over Syria, Egypt and Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War. Swashbuckling Defense Minister Moshe Dayan took most of the credit -- an injustice that rankles Rabin to this day. Nevertheless, he always subscribed to the Labor Party doctrine that one day Israel would have to trade back territory for peace...
Restrictions were made for wholly practical reasons—students want to find a seat in their own dining halls. But they may yield a brilliant and unplanned side effect: restrictions contain within them the first seeds to re-germinate Harvard’s struggling House communities. Imagine if each House imposed resident-only hours for dining halls—the whole weekend, say, or perhaps just Sunday brunch. It would have the following effect...
...years, Cristina Greig, 15, has learned that California isn't actually golden, and she knows she's in Oregon when she crosses the Columbia River. When Cristina and her sister Alysha were little, they posed their own geography question. As the plane broke through the overcast gray into a brilliant blue sky dotted with white clouds, Alysha, 4, asked, "Grandma, is this heaven?" Foose's response, after a pause, was, "No, not heaven but getting very close...
...audience. This year, the program will spotlight Bruno Dumont, in honor of his award-winning works, which have so adroitly walked the tightrope between entertainment and art. Besides screening his three feature films, the program will also introduce the director himself to audiences. Such a rare occasion with a brilliant mind should not be missed. Perhaps stemming from his studies in philosophy, Dumont’s films are far from what the average American moviegoer would usually find in Hollywood. “La Vie de Jèsus” explores the very sexual relationship between Freddy, an unemployed...