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...hours in the rain" for tickets to the Madison Square Garden concert that is the movie's centerpiece. They reach across police barriers for a healing touch from the god-boys. (The 3D effects, which include the flinging of sunglasses, guitar picks and other sacred relics into the crowd, are meant to bring the Brothers this close to their young viewers.) Throughout, the tone is hopeful, exuberant; if the crowd included desperate stalker girls, you can bet they were edited out. In a way, the fans are as knowledgeable about their role as the Brothers are about theirs. One shows...
...Sister Josephine, a nun in the Daughters of Mary congregation in Trivandrum, Kerala's state capital, was found dead in her room in an apparent suicide. Members of the congregation said the 38-year-old nun had been under treatment for depression. After news of the incident spread, a crowd gathered around the house and shouted slogans alleging that harassment had led Sister Josephine to kill herself. The police had to intervene, and an inquiry into the case was later ordered. Six months earlier, on Aug. 11 of last year, 23-year-old Sister Anoopa Mary had been found hanging...
...weather was nippy outside last Saturday night, but a large crowd had weathered the cold to gather inside of Tommy Doyle’s for the MIT portion of Rockus, a musical battle royale organized by Veritas Records and sponsored by Rolling Stone. Veritas Records President Caitlin V. Crump ’10 is convinced that it will produce the next big band.MIT, Tufts, Emerson, Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, and the Berklee College of Music each have its own night of competition in which one winner from each college emerges. It is these winners who collectively...
...diversity so that this year’s Eleganza is a celebration rather than a caricature.”LIGHTEN UP, IT’S JUST FASHIONIn a show that straddles the line between pure entertainment and artistic expression, Eleganza organizers struggle to strike a balance between pleasing the crowd and appeasing the critics. “Eleganza walks a fine line between being a show that is very appealing to an artistic world and being very appealing to a mass general audience,” McLeod admits. “But as a director I want to tiptoe that...
...Earlier this week came the release of a former detainee, Ethiopian native Binyam Mohamed, in Britain, an event that came with the by now familiar alleged horror stories of rendition and torture. For the anti-Gitmo crowd, this was proof positive that the prison is an abomination and that many, if not most, detainees should be released...