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...clear: La Grande Illusion translates as The Big Illusion. This was the first Criterion DVD release, and the supplements show that the company was on its game from the start. There is Renoir's filmed reminiscence of the movie and his own wartime exploits, as well as a fond essay by Von Stroheim on this superb director...
...witted former Coca-Cola executive and philanthropist who in 1969, along with two fellow Harvard students, co-founded the pioneering satirical magazine National Lampoon; of leukemia; in Dallas. The magazine, an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon, took wry, sometimes outrageous jabs at the rich and famous. In a photo essay it once posited that Richard Nixon, then serving his first term in office, was in fact dead...
...unfortunate pygmy with a form of microcephaly, a developmental disorder that shrinks the head and the brain. Or as the archaeologist Alan Thorne, one of the authors of the PNAS paper, says: "They are just like hobbits. They're the products of someone's imagination." (See TIME's photo-essay "Where Did the Hobbit Come From...
...original Flores paper, concedes that the PNAS paper is "very interesting" but says the authors "cherry-pick the evidence [they] like." Ultimately, he says, "I do not think that the new work dents the contention that Homo floresiensis is a new species of human." (See TIME's photo-essay "Happy 200th Darwin...
...actually a war against international terrorism and the Iranian regime, which is a threat to all of the West. One day the world will recognize the importance of that fight and Israel's essential contribution. Aurélie Simonet Geneva, Switzerland The College Gender Gap Barbara Ehrenreich's essay about boys goofing off at college while girls are overachieving was nothing more than the flip side of the stories during the 1950s and '60s that claimed women went to college only to find husbands [July 31]. I didn't care to be stereotyped that way back then...