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...History, it is in its familiar eccentric aunts and faded gentry, who infest Southern literature like kudzu. But Harriet is an original. While grownups like Michael Chabon are moonlighting as kids' writers, Tartt has written a grownup book that captures the dark, Lord of the Flies side of childhood and classic children's literature. Harriet is a child, not a pint-size adult or supergirl. (She's Harriet, not Harriet the Spy.) She is smart but not wise, naive but not innocent, a stubborn moral absolutist who acts not out of Harry Potter bravery but out of love, prejudice...
Vellucci’s animosity toward Harvard existed since his early childhood, said Robert W. Winters, a longtime Cambridge political observer...
...unconventional than Douglas Sirk and Bette Davis movies. She stumbled into filmmaking on a whim. The strength of her still photographs won her a place in the cinematography program at the National Film School in London. In 1995, her graduating year, she turned three of her own stories about childhood loss of innocence into Small Deaths. At the time, Ramsay recalls, "many students were worried about not getting a job. But I always felt you were at college to take risks." Hers paid off at Cannes. Her second short, Kill the Day, a nightmarish junkie tale, won the Clermont-Ferrand...
...common border. A Pakistan Foreign Ministry statement described India's partial withdrawal as "a step in the right direction." But Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes said "there will be no lowering of vigil" in Kashmir. Fernandes also ruled out any talks with Pakistan in the immediate future. BURMA Lost Childhood Human Rights Watch accused Burma's army of forcing children into military service, where they were subjected to beatings, pushed into active combat and prevented from contacting their families. The U.S.-based rights group estimated that children under 18 made up 20% of the country's 350,000 troops, giving...
...also incorporated psychological research into his recent studies. He interviewed several patients in a high-security psychiatric hospital and found that many of them volunteered stories of childhood trauma...