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...Traffic in 2001, Gaghan turned down seven-figure offers to write the fourth Indiana Jones movie and adapt The Da Vinci Code. Instead, inspired by an anecdote about an oil lobbyist in See No Evil, a memoir by former CIA officer Robert Baer, Gaghan decided to make a complex, journalistic movie about the politics of crude. "It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about," says Gaghan. "The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint...
Immediately after 9/11--when seeing anything other than evil behind terrorism got Bill Maher and Susan Sontag lambasted--there was a limited audience in the U.S. for complex terrorists. But four years and a controversial war later, a few works are starting to hang flesh on those stick villains. In addition to Syriana and Sleeper Cell, there's The War Within, a film about a plan to blow up New York City's Grand Central Terminal, and Paradise Now, about Palestinian suicide bombers. Salman Rushdie has taken up the subject in his latest novel, Shalimar the Clown...
...should not.I often feel that I operate in two different worlds here at Harvard. In one, I find my favorite classmates and closest friends are those who challenge my opinions, make me engage important ideas, camp out in the dining hall to discuss issues much more complex than we would care to admit. They are the ones who, as I walk away, leave me dazed because they are, simply, so impressive. This world is my moral refuge—and in it there is no real place for my more unfortunate social tendencies.Then there is my other world: the seedier...
...said the University hoped to start “the design and approval process” for the first major building of the new Allston campus, a 500,000-square-foot science complex, in the current academic year...
...After 20 minutes, it was over. The tanks had collapsed most of the buildings in the school complex on top of those militants who hadn't fled. Those who had tried to run got a nasty surprise: "We started dropping 203s [small grenades] behind them so when they ran, they ran into steel," Ventrone said. "They picked the wrong time to attack us. We had two tanks...