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...final week of the campaign - an astounding 40% of the electorate, according to recent polls - facing a quiet weekend to make up their minds free of media influence. Still, their friends and families, of whatever political stripe, will be hectoring them with a now familiar imprecation: to cast a vote utile - a useful vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Je Ne Sais Quoi Elections | 4/21/2007 | See Source »

...film, like many before it, follows a modern young loner as he struggles to find meaning and direction in life as everything around him swirls dangerously out of control. Director Paul Fox strikes an unexpected level of originality by taking advantage of his talented cast and presenting a consistently comfortable atmosphere throughout the film. Coupland’s script layers clever dialogue and amusing plot details on top of the tired premise of a premature mid-life crisis. Ryan’s specific circumstances are odd enough to catch attention, but not so outlandish as to obscure the message behind...

Author: By Eric M. Sefton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Everything's Gone Green | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

...students who voted in the referendum this week, 2,914 cast a ballot in favor of a UC proposal that would also extend winter break to four weeks and have the spring final exam period end more than a week earlier. Meanwhile, 549 students voted against the proposal, Petersen said...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Large Turnout, Calendar Reform Wins Overwhelming Support | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

...father expresses. Nusseibeh characterizes himself more as an academic than as a politician or activist. He studied at Oxford, Harvard, and Birzeit university in Ramallah, and is now the president of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. Yet Nusseibeh somehow manages to evade every role into which he might be cast. As a child of Arab nobility, he chooses to marry an Englishwoman. As a Muslim studying Muslim texts, he enrolls in the Warburg Institute in London, a school founded by a Jew. As the chief representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organization in Jerusalem, Nusseibeh continues to state his own opinions...

Author: By Kimberly B. Kargman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Memoirs From East Jerusalem | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

...they’re just in stark black and white. With their previous experience—Quinn performed and staffed plays throughout high school, and Camero brings a strong musical background—the two have been able to play to their own strengths and to those of the cast. Quinn: I’ve performed in a bunch of community theater shows, and I’ve done crew for shows. I know how shows work. I’ve probably been in two dozen in the past five years. The thing with directing is that as long...

Author: By Lee ann W. Custer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Patrick H. Quinn ’10 & Juan D. Camero ‘10 | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

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