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...brutish and tender. And the camera doesn't shy away from any panting detail. Explicit even by today's standards, the movie works hard to earn the adults-only NC-17 rating it has been given in the U.S. Shooting the scenes was so exhausting that Lee and his cast could only work half-days. On one occasion, lead actress Tang Wei fainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infernal Affair | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...upstanding middle-class Bengalis keen to prove their mettle against the British. They named it after one of the many Victorian villas in the densely colonial north of the city where most well-to-do Bengalis lived. From its founding, the club was consciously modern and nationalistic, eager to cast off the much-invoked colonial stereotype of the effeminate Oriental. Drinking and smoking were strictly forbidden, and young athletes, some scouted from remote villages in Bengal and other parts of the country, had their school scores monitored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash of the Titans | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...America’s “most accomplished” and “most iconic” university. In narrating the headline-grabbing endeavors of Harvardians past and present, she delicately impressed upon intimidated first-years the significance of their “excellence.” Cast into this “cauldron of creativity,” she argued, the class of 2011 will emerge ready to transform the world...

Author: By Adaner Usmani | Title: Against Leadership | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

Rumor has it that TV show “The Bachelor” hopes to cast a Harvard alum as its rose-brandishing lead for the next season of trashy catfights and semi-clandestine makeout sessions. FM breaks down the top choices for the job. 1. BJ Novak ’01: like Conan O’Brien ’85 before him, this Harvard alum and Newton, Mass. native proves that smart people are funny too. On screen, he charms the ladies as Ryan Howard on the American version of The Office. It?...

Author: By Kate E. Cetrulo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard's Most Eligible | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...sent across the Charles River after a bell expert determined that two of them were too close in tone to be sounded at the same time. Yesterday’s ceremony marked another chapter in the decades-long saga to send the bells home and to commission and cast replacements for Harvard. The Business School’s new bell, which was dubbed the Centennial Bell in honor of the school’s 100th anniversary next year, rang in its new home for the first time. A half-size replica of the bell was simultaneously unveiled on the lawn...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HBS Rings in New Russian Bell | 10/2/2007 | See Source »

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