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...Facebook group member likened the protestors’ struggle to a fortune cookie she’d found on the ground outside the Harvard Science Center, which read, “[W]hen spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.” An inspiring rallying call for these poor, disenfranchised Harvard students. Their main man Barack would be proud...
...country where car-burning isn't a common symptom of socioeconomic unrest, news of so many automobiles being torched would be alarming - if not a sign of brewing insurrection. In France, however, word of the destruction that accompanied the evening the French call Saint-Sylvestre was met with a mix of Gaulic shrugs and low-grade peevishness...
...moment, five new films that touch on the Nazis' Final Solution - Defiance, The Reader, Good (which prompted TIME critic Richard Schickel to call for a moratorium), The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Adam Resurrected - are in theaters. A sixth, Valkyrie with Tom Cruise, is a Holo-cousin: it details a 1944 plot by German officers to kill Hitler. Taylor notes that since the early 1990s, when Steven Spielberg was preparing his Oscar-winning Schindler's List, there have been 170 Holocaust movies. (The Internet Movie Database lists 429 titles on the subject.) It has become not just a topic...
...readings, Lowenstern says, "Ultimately it's my responsibility to put out alerts. The National Park Service and local officials would be responsible for civil defense measures and evacuation plans. For now, life goes on. The system is generally automated, and a seismologist at the University of Utah is on call to make sure it's a real event should it be anything unusual...
...Followers give the credit to Swami Shantanand Saraswathi, the "mobile monk" as some call him, who went to Malaysia in 1971 on a spiritual calling and, finding master musicians and dancers among his new devotees, turned his life's work into becoming an impresario - eventually creating Temples of Fine Arts in Singapore, Australia, India and Sri Lanka as well. The swami died in 2005, long before the fruition of his work in K.L., which when fully operational will comprise a 600-seat auditorium, an art gallery, seven dance studios, 12 music rooms and more...