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...going to be a typical military campaign. The U.S. military believes the Taliban's grip on power is brittle, and that like crystal glass, it may shatter if it is hit in the right place. They know they can't knock it out from the air. And they also have doubts about the military usefulness of the Northern Alliance. But they suspect that the Northern Alliance's willingness to fight and the discontent of the wider population with Taliban rule might be enough to drive them out of power. The big question now is how much indigenous support the Taliban...
Hearts of Atlantis opens with a slightly confused image: Through the lens of Bobby’s camera, we see a large, multi-faced crystal sphere. The faces of the crystal bend the light that passes through them in dazzling ways, distorting our view of reality and of the photograph lying behind the sphere. Through the lit orb, perception is filtered and altered, and Hearts in Atlantis, more than anything else is a story of filtered and altered perception...
Going into Hearts in Atlantis, I hoped very much that this would be one of the exceptional adaptations. I had high expectations...which were fulfilled. This powerful and poignant tale, as multifaceted as the crystal sphere from the opening credits, is rendered beautifully in the more than capable hands of Scott Hicks. An example of Hicks’ impressive and insightful direction involves his use of glass, mirrors and photographs as motifs to indicate the distance between object, observer and the accuracy of perception. Bobby drifts into his past while gazing through a glass windowpane in his childhood bedroom...
...Crystal Farh ’05 and Kate Ward ’05 brought a gift for Summers—homemade chocolate chip cookies baked in the Matthews Hall basement...
...Riedel's flagship crystal is still produced in the time-honored way, with glowing lumps of molten glass mouth-blown into cast-iron molds and fitted with hand-fashioned stems and bases by master craftsmen working in two factories at Kufstein, in the Austrian Tyrol near the German border, and at Schneegattern, north of Salzburg. Riedel glasses are near-perfect examples of ongoing innovation in traditional craftsmanship...