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Those struggles begin in earnest this weekend not just across the Charles, where Harvard hosts Dartmouth, but—perhaps even more importantly—in Upstate New York as well, where first-place Cornell and second-place Colgate square off in a home-and-home series with the potential to establish either as the front runner from here...
...Carey arrives in Tokyo loaded with clever theories, his earnest questions already translated into Japanese. But he meets with frustration again and again. A visit with Yoshindo Yoshihara, one of the last swordsmiths working in Tokyo, is an exercise in polite disappointment, as the master deflects and deflates all questions, making it clear that the meaning of his craft, like the ability to handle his swords, can't cross cultural borders. "We would not know the etiquette, how to sit, how to hold the scabbard or the hilt, how to slide the blade out by the back surface only...
...Jehane Noujaim?s ?Control Room? got its power from its intimacy. Half the time it?s in the Iraq theater of war with Al Jazeera reporters like the mammothly charming Hassan Ibrahim, who has a respectful running dialogue with Marine Capt. Josh Rushing, a fellow so appealingly earnest in a tough job - explaining the U.S. invasion to journalists - that he would be the hero of any other film. (Rushing resigned his commission this year, joining the Veterans? antiwar brigade Operation Truth and saying of the Administration?s purported evidence of Saddam?s WMDs, ?I felt personally duped.?) In the other...
...school teacher. After searching in vain for a sponsor to pay for his tuition - he was knocked back by aid organizations - Buarobo says his fees will be paid by an "honorable man," his Malaitan M.P., Fred Fono. And why would he do that? "Because I voted for him," the earnest, clean-living Buarobo replies...
Listening to Sufjan Stevens, 29-year-old songwriter and rising folk darling (even Pitchfork loves him), is one such sanctuary, a slightly dark, unabashedly earnest and hopeful experience. With the delicate voice of a young man who’s just losing his world-weary reticence, Sufjan (pronounced SOOF-yan), whether in conversation or in song, perpetually sounds as if he’s making his transcendent re-entrance to a simpler place with a sweet, happy calmness...