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...Jarmusch begins his film The Limits of Control, the tale of a hitman who doesn't seem to hit, with a quote from the first two lines of Arthur Rimbaud's poem "The Drunken Boat." Some may see this as an alert to pretensions ahead, although my own interpretation was that it serves as a sort of helpful mini-review...
...Wallace Fowlie, an authority on French poetry. Fowlie, who died in 1998, devoted entire semesters of teaching at Duke University to Dante and Proust, which sounds like serious stuff, but he was noted for his fine sense of humor. I have no doubt that, confronted with The Limits of Control, he would have offered a fresh translation, "As I was going down that impassive narrative, I no longer felt myself guided by a director...
Swine flu is going to college. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed that a Notre Dame student tested positive for swine flu - school officials in Indiana said the undergraduate had not been to Mexico recently - and the University of Delaware has started screening students in a special clinic after four cases of influenza that meet probable definitions for swine flu popped on campus...
...only for the other team.”The Crimson almost squandered its seventh-inning rally in the top of the eighth, when senior reliever Ryan Watson’s initially solid pitching was negated by a pair of errors. The lefty then began to struggle with his control, allowing the Huskies to pull within two. Sophomore Dan Berardo replaced Watson, allowing another run to score on a wild pitch before buckling down to get the final out of the inning with Harvard still up, 14-13.The Crimson added two insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth, although they proved...
...does the phrase "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" sound familiar? - Roosevelt had been in office barely 24 hours when he declared a four-day bank holiday and drafted the Emergency Banking Act, which helped calm a financial panic that was quickly spiraling out of control. By the time he hit the 100-day mark, Roosevelt had instituted the "fireside chat" tradition, called Congress into a three-month-long special session and passed 15 pieces of major legislation - the beginning of what would come to be known as the New Deal - which created everything from...