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With just under six weeks remaining in the race to gain the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat vacated by the late Edward M. Kennedy ’54-56, the two Harvard alumni in contention are facing large gaps in the polls, according to figures released last week by a Massachussetts-based polling institute...
...with all of these anxieties and prejudices that I approached Edward Snow’s new translation of Rainer Maria Rilke, the early 20th century poet who wrote in German (though he was born in Prague, at the time under Austro-Hungarian control). Before I evaluate the translation, I must admit that I do not speak a single word of German. Accordingly, I will address the book as a reader for whom it was intended: one who does not know the language and therefore needs another to present Rilke’s poetical universe...
According to Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis, who held a press conference to update the public following Tuesday’s incident, Desrosiers is currently in stable condition...
...that the No. 1 movie costume for this weekend's Halloween revelers would be Michael Jackson. The singer, whose worldwide success was built on CDs and concerts, not movies, became his own fictional character. And like the runners-up - Wolverine from the X-Men films and the Twilight series' Edward - Jackson is a hero from the dark side. (See this year's top 10 Halloween costumes...
Ortega and Jackson had some Berkeley-size production numbers in mind. A version of "Smooth Criminal" interpolates Jackson into antique movie clips with Rita Hayworth, Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson. "They Don't Care About Us" sends 1,100 CGI soldiers marching down a kind of Champs-Elysées whose Arc de Triomphe is bent into an M for Michael. "Thriller" was to boast 3-D effects. And "Earth Song," the rain-forest-message number, has a dewy child (a girl, if you're wondering) facing down a bulldozer, which was then to motor toward the front...