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...good for the mind, but bad for the soul,’” declared Corker, who says he is close to a number of professors and has been “very happy” with his academic career at Harvard. (It culminated in a thesis on Cuban athletes, inspired by many visits to Cuba over his college years, trips which allowed him to befriend a number of professional boxers there...
...very concerned in the late ‘50s/early ‘60s, particularly when the Cuban Missile Crisis took place, about our chances of survival,” Blumenfeld says. “That led me to think that I want to go to a place like New Zealand which I thought might have a good chance of escaping a nuclear attack and nuclear fallout around the world...
...refurbished the bedrooms in his country house as torture chambers. But Leth is also a game fellow who realizes, perhaps more quickly than Von Trier, that all art has its rules and that the stranger the rules, the more fun in following and subverting them. Leth's Cuban segment is a suave and colorful abstraction; the cartoon (made in collaboration with Waking Life co-director Bob Sabiston) is a handsomely rendered restatement of his original film. He does so well that Von Trier becomes increasingly exasperated. "You made a great film," he says after seeing one segment...
...Leth has the freedom to do as he wishes. Without the arbitrary guidelines, Leth delivers an unfocused mess. But even that botch has instructive value. It shows why a director's most personal work often fails and why masterpieces are made within the confines of genre: film noir, western, Cuban movie in half-second shots...
Your typical retired Marine Corps general is busy these days dodging sand traps on the golf course or second-guessing troop maneuvers in Iraq as a cable-TV talking head. But former Brigadier General Michael Mulqueen, who controlled U.S. reconnaissance plans during the Cuban missile crisis and served two tours of duty in Vietnam, puts in up to 60 hours a week commanding a work force of 90 employees and 8,000 volunteers. His mission: providing meals to 310,000 needy people in and around Chicago each year. Mulqueen, 66, is executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, considered...