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...will send those movies into almost gruesome profitability (some of the films have made more than $100 million). The group is loose knit, and other members include the director of the first Saw movie, James Wan, and his co-writer, Leigh Whannell; Hostel writer-director Eli Roth; The Descent's Neil Marshall; and Alexandre Aja, who remade Wes Craven's 1977 cannibalistic film, The Hills Have Eyes...
...idea was born out of the First World War. The balance-of-power diplomacy that had led to that great catastrophe was to be abolished and replaced by something new. The Great Powers all had an interest in not repeating that descent into war. They would henceforth act together--"collective security"--against those who would breach the peace. Hence the League of Nations. Hence the celebrated Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 in which they all pledged to abolish war forever...
...weekend a “great minds movement,” Af-Am Department Chair Evelyn B. Higginbotham said that the weekend served “as a collective for discussing the issues that are current in our world today for African American people and people of African descent.” At a bustling black-tie affair in the Cambridge Marriott, keynote speaker Stephanie K. Bell-Rose ’79 suggested a model of sustained alumni engagementent to Harvard and its black community. Bell-Rose, the founding president of The Goldman Sachs Foundation and a managing director...
...shared perspectives between 1950 and 1990 was the exception rather than the rule," says Tony Judt, a British-born professor of European history at New York University. "Before World War II, no one spoke about 'the West' as a shared cultural area. Americans, mostly of recent European descent, saw themselves as getting away from Europe. Europeans saw America as worryingly rootless, an exclusively mercantile place without culture, heritage, tradition, which was therefore threatening to their future. I think we may be seeing an unarticulated return to an opening of that old tap." The young are the ones most easily inebriated...
...Reading Aparisim Ghosh's brilliantly evocative "Baghdad Diary" [Aug. 28] at the back door of my typically English bungalow on a gently warm late-summer's day was utterly bizarre. From his description of the terrifying descent into Baghdad airport to the final words of his article, I was lost in his powerful rhetoric. Fortunately, we have Ghosh to describe the situation in Baghdad. Otherwise we would have to rely on the ever-optimistic, honeyed official government reports, which would have us believe Iraq will soon be free of anarchy, death and destruction?a claim that has been made since...