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...can’t live your life believing every ten-penny self-proclaimed teacher, critic, agent, etc.,” writes David Mamet in “True and False,” his 1997 treatise on acting, “Your first and most important tool is common sense.” Mamet’s words of advice for the young actor are wise. A veteran playwright and director, he knows as well as anyone else that there is a lot of pabulum passed off as legitimate acting technique or theory. More importantly, he knows that even some...

Author: By Matthew C. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: David Mamet’s Overstated ‘Theatre’ | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

Kaczynski, who became Poland's president in 2005, had been a dogged critic of Putin and Russia's efforts to restore influence over the former Soviet Union. He sparred with the Kremlin over the bans Russia imposed on Polish food imports in recent years, calling them part of a strategy of political blackmail and manipulation. In 2006, he even proposed that the European Union impose sanctions on Russia for its economic bullying in Eastern Europe. His animosity had deep roots. In 1980, he spent nearly a year in prison for "anti-socialist" activities when the Moscow-backed communist government imposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plane Crash Kills Polish President: A Blow to Russia-Poland Relations | 4/10/2010 | See Source »

...White House has mostly avoided direct public engagement with its unlikely critic. On ABC's This Week recently, White House economic aide Larry Summers dodged a question about Kaufman's complaints. "Senator Kaufman is exactly right," he said instead, sympathizing with the concern about large bank failures. In fact, on whether to dismantle the largest banks, it would be hard for the two men to disagree more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Replacement Senator Causing Democrats Fits | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...addition to museum experience, Schneider Enriquez has also worked in other divisions of the art world. She has written as an independent art critic, and her pieces have appeared in ARTNews, ArtNexus, and Art in America magazines...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Latin American Art Expert to Fill Associate Curator Position | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...current pedophile-priest scandal - what the Catholic writer and papal critic Andrew Sullivan pointedly refers to as "child rape" by clergy - has transfixed Catholics around the world, particularly with the allegations out of Germany that Benedict XVI, then Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger of Munich, may have allowed a transferred priest accused of sexual abuse to work again with children. The scandal has had a telling effect on the tradition-bound Holy See. High-ranking clerics have complained of media bias and a conspiracy against the Pope. One well-placed Vatican official who worked closely with the Pope when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex Abuse: The Vatican's Struggle for Damage Control | 3/31/2010 | See Source »

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