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...Given that strutting, it wasn't surprising that the final tally announced at 5 a.m. Saturday left the Royal camp incredulous and outraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Segolene Royal Loses Bid for Top Party Post | 11/22/2008 | See Source »

...Striped Pajamas” seems a strangely pleasant name for a film about the Holocaust, and yet such paradox is consistent with the movie as a whole. Based on the novel by John Boyne, it reveals the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp through the eyes of a naïve German boy. Throughout the film, the juxtaposition of childhood innocence with the unbelievable atrocities committed by the Nazis during Word War II facilitates poignant reflection on the divisions created by racism and torn down by friendship.Bruno (Asa Butterfield) is the eight-year-old son of a Nazi Captain (David...

Author: By April M. Van buren, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas' | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...psychotherapist. Instruction can take the form of six-week courses on family, love, play, politics or work ($320), or can involve spending an hour with one of the school's experts ($80), including an atheist, a beekeeper and a man who escaped from a World War II detention camp. Recently, the school hosted DIY lessons on how to hang wallpaper in the style of Ernest Hemingway. Each offering, says Sophie Howarth, the school's founder, addresses Plato's question: "What is the right way to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Living at The School of Life | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...Tommy Lee Jones really emphasizes that the students are not to be treated like princes during their stay at the ranch,” he said. “They are working on horses and riding every day, so it’s more like boot camp...

Author: By Eunice Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Polo Rides on Jones’ Gifts | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

Achebe read nine of his poems that explored African culture and history, with a focus on his Igbo heritage. He wove together vignettes from his various works of a mother in a refugee camp, Christmas in Biafora, and vultures picking at carcasses...

Author: By Anna E. Sakellariadis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Achebe’s Poems Awe Listeners | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

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