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Because of this tendency to concentrate on the negative, people expect it. So they're surprised when something other than that is done in relation to Africa. I don't think that people are malevolent. They're just so accustomed to saying that it's a broken continent, and a disaster area, that they just expect it. And they feel, therefore, that something that doesn't adopt that is somehow misleading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander McCall Smith | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...Lone Man makes his way from Madrid to Seville and then into the countryside toward his wealthy target, American, aka the Man (Bill Murray, who starred in Jarmusch's lovely Broken Flowers), he encounters a cast of characters who trade boxes of matches with him and pass on more tidbits of instruction along with commentary on art and culture. There's Guitar (John Hurt), Mexican (Gael Garcia Bernal) and the most helpful of all, Blonde (Tilda Swinton), who is a fan of Jarmusch-style cinema. "The best films are like dreams you're never really sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Limits of Control: Hitman of Your Dreams | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...outside art. One of his favorites was an illustrated medical text about illnesses of the mouth. He worked from reproductions, movie stills and photographs of all kinds pinned to the walls of his studio and scattered on the floor in a sedimentary muck of paper, rags, used brushes and broken furniture that he would dive into for ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tragic Hero: A Majestic Francis Bacon Show | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...model for the world,” Pearce says. “And part of that is having a community that values all of its members. Our campaign really comes from fact that we love the Harvard community, and it would be a tragedy for it to be broken up by layoffs. It’s coming from a place of love rather than a place of rebellion...

Author: By Kristen L. Cronon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SLAM Works For The Workers | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...deposits. He said that they have received more than 60 other inquiries, but further contracts have been put on hold. In the past year, plaintiff and MIT President Emeritus Paul E. Gray said that the developers had altered their plans and that communication between the developers and URC has broken down. In a meeting with URC last November, the developers voiced their desire to convert the remaining condominiums into rentals, but has not met with the plaintiffs since, according to Gray. “Instead of coming out and saying, ‘look we’ve changed...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Affiliates Sue Developers | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

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