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Rural basketball coaches, inner-city math and music teachers - they are, as we all know, everywhere in the movies, inspiring their unlikely charges to equally unlikely triumphs. Most of these films insist they are based on "true" stories, though none that I know of confess to those melodramatic heightenings of the facts that, sooner or later, place lumps in our throats - which, according to taste, we either wallow in or try to swallow back...
...holiday season is a time for giving and sharing—The Harvard Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) seems to have taken that to heart. At least, they’re sharing secrets.On a Friday night earlier this month, the student group sponsored a gathering entitled “Confessions.” The Crimson reported that at this powwow, which was attended by around 75 people, students were encouraged to confess their weaknesses publicly to the rest of the audience. One Harvard senior confessed he was addicted to pornography and had a pattern of objectifying women as a result. Another...
...Some critics have already chided Robert Zemeckis's new animated feature, written by Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman, for insufficient fidelity to its fabled source. I have to confess I can't remember even sleeping through the poem in high-school English class. So my only, ignorant criterion has to be: Is Beowulf a good movie...
...also his thesis advisor. Gomes did not remember filming the scenes Karslake used in the film. “I get many request for interviews, and I’m sure this one was among them,” said Gomes. “I have to confess this was not at the front of my memory and I had to be reminded that I was in it.”Both Gomes and Reitan agree that Karslake’s film is important. “I was very impressed. I though it was a very good movie...
...know to be confused about the acceptable level of internal Asian to embrace. On one end of the spectrum lie self-isolated cliques of swaggering, slouchy-jeaned teenagers flashing AZN pride signals across high school cafeterias. On the other end are perfectly American girls sporting ponytails and Cokes who confess to never having found an Asian man attractive and admit, embarrassedly, that it is in fact social suicide to have too many Asian friends. The rest of us who remain uncaricatured—well...