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...photo series of a 10-foot sculpture of a dead chicken—beheaded, de-feathered, and cleaned—taken in various public locations. Quite daunting...
...since religion is a no less prevalent nor less valuable form of diversity as race and class, the university should encourage discussion of this facet of the human experience as well. Harvard should also ensure that those who are unsure of their beliefs can be accommodated and not grant de facto preferential treatment to those with a religious affiliation...
...elections were called early by Rajapaksa, who is seeking to validate his victory against the LTTE. Instead, many voters are taking the opportunity to send him a message that they are still suffering economically. Karu de Silva, a resident of Colombo and father of two, says he plans to vote for Fonseka because he feels that Rajapaksa's government has not given families any relief from rising prices. "This year I spent probably twice as much as I spent last year on the books for the new school year," de Silva says. "We need some kind of help...
...needs much help. A half-dozen men in the saloon, a dozen or more in a Main Street shoot-out, the whole Carnegie regiment ready to reduce to rubble the rural house Eli has holed up in with a grizzled couple (Brit theatrical giants Michael Gambon and Frances de la Tour) and Solara - none of these armies can bring him down. One dastard gets it in the groin; another, through the neck. In a tense face-off, Carnegie's main henchman, Redridge (Ray Stevenson), has a gun on the unarmed Eli, who goes eye to eye with him and disarms...
...fondness for coming-of-age stories about the great and famous. In George Cukor's The Actress she played the teenage Ruth Gordon, desperate for Broadway acclaim; in The Young Bess Simmons was a budding Queen of England, co-starring with her first husband, Stewart Granger. She ornamented De Mille-style antique epics like The Robe and The Egyptian, which required only that she look good and speak well. And she went up against Brando first in the 1954 Desirée, where she's a French maid with a crush on Napoleon, then a year later in Guys...