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...where you come from, think again. At least that was the message behind an event at Winthrop House last night in which two House residents discussed the results of genetic testing that traced their roots to distant, and in one case unexpected, corners of the globe. Pedro Jorge Gomes Castelo-Branco, a Winthrop House tutor of Portuguese descent, and House Master Mandana Sassanfar, whose family is from Iran, presented the result of the tests as part of a race and diversity event that focused on the “interconnectedness of the human population.” The pair...
Syriana is one of three new films, all meaty and intelligent, told in part from the view of a suicide bomber. Hany Abu-Assad's gnarly, poignant Paradise Now is set on the West Bank; Joseph Castelo's knockout nail biter The War Within takes place in New York City. But both have the monomania of an Islamic jihadist and the momentum of a Hitchcock movie about a bomb on a bus. Their simple narratives are the fuse that inexorably leads to the big blast. Syriana also ends with an explosion, but its journey there is through a labyrinth...
...recordings and in concert, her low, tremulous instrument is backed by a band consisting of a 12-string Portuguese guitar and a Spanish guitar, the traditional fado instruments, and a bass guitar. The 12-string guitarist, Custodio Castelo, is Branco's husband as well as her chief collaborator in songwriting. She presents him with a poem she likes, usually Portuguese, and the two of them craft it into song...
...Private Client Group. (A reading of 0 means that two markets are as likely to go in opposite directions as they are to go in the same direction; 1 means that two markets always go the same way.) Kirt Butler, professor of finance at Michigan State University, and Domingo Castelo Joaquin, professor of finance at Illinois State University, found in a study that correlations go even higher in down markets. Think of the 1987 stock-market crash. No major market escaped the damage...
...about time somebody attempted to explain why costs are rising instead of suggesting ways in which people can save for these hikes. This is a perfect example of how greedy capitalism is dismantling the American Dream. DANIEL CASTELO Cleveland, Tennessee...