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...first we get hints that Stone is up to his nifty old tricks. It's a hazing session of Yale's Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, where the forced guzzling of whiskey is the gentleman scholar's equivalent of waterboarding. The other pledges are frightened, but Dubya (Josh Brolin, who's game but not great) impresses his brothers by not only rattling off their names but also appending a goofy nickname to each. In two lightning strokes, W. provides a reference point for the Bush Administration's interrogation techniques of terrorist suspects and imagines an early example of Bush's frat...
Particular landscapes can have a strong emotional impact on artists, and for first-time writer and director Lance Hammer, who screened his debut feature “Ballast” at the Harvard Film Archive on Monday, that locale proved to be the Mississippi Delta. The film, which has won numerous accolades, reflects not only Hammer’s sensitivity to place, but also the authenticity of the characters who inhabit that place. “I was unprepared for the experience, a deep connection to something I cannot articulate,” Hammer said, describing his experience living...
You’ve seen the posters staring down at you from nearly every signpost on campus. You’ve noticed the Facebook ads prominently displayed next to your ex-girlfriend’s latest photo album. The Alpha Delta Phi Literary Society—whatever that is—is apparently coming back to Harvard after a 100-year hiatus. Though the poster lists only a phone number and an e-mail address for prospective members to declare their interest, FM did some sleuthing to find out some more information. According...
...focus right now should be simple: better levees for New Orleans and real restoration of the coast. Southern Louisiana began to disappear after the Corps imprisoned the Mississippi River and converted it into a barge channel that stopped depositing sediment into its Delta; satellite images of this spring's floods showed the river wasting huge plumes of sediment out to sea, sediment that could be diverted to restore coastal marshes and rebuild barrier islands. There is already $1 billion worth of small projects on the books to start that process, but restoration work is moving much, much more slowly than...
...surged as far as 45 ft. (about 14 m) above the river's dry-season lows. Meanwhile, in Burma, which is still recovering from a cyclone that killed at least 84,000 people in May, torrential rains have forced people to flee their homes--particularly residents of the Irrawaddy delta, one of the areas hardest hit by the deadly spring storm...