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...girl at the center of the film dwelt simultaneously in the horrifying reality of war-ravaged Spain and in a Wonderland retreat of fauns and goblins, The Orphanage zooms along on two parallel tracks. One is realistic, prosaic; it says that Laura's grief over Simon's loss has driven her to desperation and toward suicidal madness. The other, with acknowledgments to J.M.Barrie's Peter Pan, is fantastic, or poetic: it suggests that her grief has opened her to other realities, put her in touch with souls crying from the beyond for justice. As a medium (Geraldine Chaplin) tells Laura...
...whole-heartedly supported by SfS. “We’re 100 percent behind whatever the guards decide to do,” according to Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09, a member the campaign. Given Harvard’s largely apathetic, resume-driven environment, such earnest passion is refreshing. Undoubtedly, the strikers endured substantial physical and psychological stress, and it would be crass to belittle their suffering. But zealotry is not, in and of itself, admirable, nor does martyrdom make a cause more justified; however passionate, the strikers’ actions reflect...
...Last year, the Dalai Lama himself awarded a "Truth of Light" award to the Hergé Foundation, which runs the late author's estate, as a gesture of thanks to "significant contributions to the public understanding of Tibet" through the book, written a year after the Dalai Lama was driven into exile by the Chinese government...
...identifying so many students as editors, readers are left with the impression that Crimson reporting is driven more by reporters’ and editors’ outside interests than their principled news judgment. And students frustrated that their organizations aren’t being covered by the newspaper quite reasonably may wonder if they would have received better, or at least more coverage, if they were an editor...
While India's image makers may want the world to believe that business is the country's new religion, for many here there are older faiths - and faith-driven feuds - that matter more. At least five people were killed Friday in the southern city of Hyderabad, when a bomb exploded in a mosque crowded with worshipers attending Friday prayers. Police say they found and defused two other bombs close by. So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack...