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...provoked by and serves to provoke its audience­—no matter how restrictive that audience may be. Following the screening of “This Is Nollywood,” Corrigan described the subsequent success of “Check Point” and its curious reception in northern Nigeria, where the “Calawood” film collective produces more conservative films for the predominately Muslim community there: “The Censor Board’s blurb on the cover of ‘Check Point’ reads: ‘The best...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nigeria's Nollywood: The World's Third Cinema | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...time we start college. Bray followed 127 subjects and found that on the whole, first-year college students participate in significantly less exercise than they did just one year before. Academic demands and lack of organized sports are certainly part of the problem. A bigger part may be a curious human tendency to look at life changes as an occasion to blow up the old rules and not create new ones in their place. This is especially so when it comes to staying fit. "College is the first big transition in life," Bray says. "And it becomes an excuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stuck on the Couch | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...secret to writing a really great play? CME: Well, I think the key is imagining the world before you put it on the stage. Really spend time imagining the world and then grappling with some type of burning question—something that hurts you or makes you curious or really pulls at you—that needs to be answered in theatrical form. I think one of my favorite sayings is “Write what you don’t know about what you know.” I really like that because there is that sense...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions With Christine Evans | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...action. "I would cut the games back," he says. "You're going to see a level of intensity go up." In a sports world consumed with wiping out drugs, Garnett, who was chosen for the Feb. 17 All-Star game but has an abdominal strain, would offer a curious reform. "We're drug-tested too much," he says. "We're very funny about our routines. The policy is set up now where, on game day, they can come get you, take you. If you can't go, you'll sit there--they'll hound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Celtic Threebound | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

That's what distinguishes Diana--the tiny but telling detail, the curious angle that gives the viewer a new insight. And though Diana has a large personality, she also excels at the thing that's essential for any great photojoumalist: blending into the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Scenes | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

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