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...capricious machinery of meta-natural laws at Hogwarts school. The movies? spookiness was a Halloween trick (or, if they liked it, treat) - the equivalent of a mischievous uncle shouting Boo! on the other side of the door. Just what you?d expect from director Chris Columbus, whose notion of childhood stretches from funny-scary (he directed Home Alone) to scary-funny (he scripted the evil-kids-on-the-rampage Gremlins...
...most children have just graduated to watching “Sesame Street.” But by that tender age, little Jonathan A. Cohler ’88 had already traded in Big Bird for the big, bad world of the clarinet. Childhood talent matured into adult honors. Prior to attending Harvard, Cohler honed his musical skills just around the corner, under teacher Pasquale Cardillo, the principal clarinetist of the Boston Pops. In his first year at Harvard, Cohler won a fellowship from the world-renowned Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, becoming its youngest member. “Harvard...
...It’s great that they grow up quickly. But here, everyone is so ambitious and doing so many things already, so I think it’s great that they give us this gift of three more years of childhood. I want to stay here as long...
...Favorite childhood toy: Teenage mutant ninja turtles, Michaelangelo...
Perhaps because of the tricky moral ground--and the potential for bolstering stereotypes--those terrorism scripts include sympathetic Muslims as audience surrogates. In Syriana there is a reformist Arab prince; in War Within, Hassan's childhood friend Sayeed (Firdous Bamji), an assimilated suburban dad, doesn't understand why Hassan can't leave his anger and piety back in the Old World. In its sweeping, 24-like thriller plot, Sleeper Cell depicts a wide range of extremists but also Darwyn (Michael Ealy), a devout Muslim FBI agent who infiltrates the cell and sees its members as foes of Islam...