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...central character, is called by the fictional name of Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovic) but he is based on a real figure, who had been arrested before the war as Germany's most adept counterfeiter and recruited to his wartime duties by the cop who first arrested him in 1936. He's a rather chilly character; entirely amoral, he believes in only one thing-his own survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Counterfeiters Lauds Real Human Will | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...that there are some wonderful ironies in the last reel. I can certainly say that if this movie cannot match the high moral sentiments of, say, Schindler's List , it is, on its much smaller scale, a very good movie, which like Spielberg's masterpiece, offers us a shifty central figure, whose much less certain redemption is fascinating to observe. The Counterfeiters leaves us pondering this question: When government itself becomes fully criminalized, does our hope of surviving its depredations depend not on brave acts of resistance, but on scuttling through the shadows, answering its monstrousness with our own determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Counterfeiters Lauds Real Human Will | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...handing of the reins to Poterba, who was just a sophomore at the College when Feldstein became president, marks the end of an era for the NBER, a time in which Feldstein “reinvigorated” the bureau turned it into the central institute for economic research...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MIT Prof Replaces Feldstein At NBER | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...Culinary Institute of America. Not so for Theresa A. McCulla ’04, the newly appointed coordinator of Food Literacy Project (FLP), a program affiliated with Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS); she spent three years after graduation working as a media analyst and translator for the Central Intelligence Agency...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Smart Food: The CIA Comes to Harvard | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...Ouandja, up in the turbulent and remote northeast of the Central African Republic (CAR), not far from the border with Sudan's Darfur, is connected to the capital, Bangui, by rutted roads that become impassable in the rainy season. The town and its residents have long been abandoned by the state. Still, Patrice has not lost hope that, one day, someone in Bangui might recognise his efforts as an educator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Darfur Represents Hope | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

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