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...This year's lineup comprises 312 films (249 features; the rest, short subjects). That number is down by 40 from last year's haul, thus allowing the bosses of the festival, Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey (replacing Noah Cowan), to congratulate themselves for streamlining the event. It's a little like a morbidly obese person bragging that he got through lunch eating only three bags of potato chips...
...weekend war in Georgia at the beginning of August is leading, as it should, to a discussion about the future of the relationships between Russia, its neighbors, and the Western powers. More than any recent event in international affairs that I can recall, the war has also provoked an intense debate about the past. Russia's insistence that it has national interests to protect, and that it is willing to resort to the brutal use of force to protect them, has reopened old arguments about the way the West behaved in the years following the end of the Cold...
Harvard students who attended last week’s Democratic National Convention had a mostly positive assessment of the event. The Convention, which took place in Denver’s Pepsi Center and Invesco Field at Mile High, gave the Democrats the opportunity to come together and make a strong case for Barack Obama as the general presidential election kicks into high gear. Jarret A. Zafran '09, president of the Harvard College Democrats and a Crimson editorial writer, said he enjoyed the variety of panels and events, including a panel on poverty that featured Ben Affleck and Madeleine Albright...
...book has four sections, and in each section there's a major plot twist that has a strong resemblance to an event in the real life of George and Laura Bush - or Laura Bush, I should say; not all of it is George's. But then everything else is made up. There's a chapter where Charlie Blackwell is drinking heavily, and he buys the baseball team and gives up drinking and finds religion, and obviously those have George Bush parallels. But there's all this other stuff that has to do with a Princeton reunion, and Alice Blackwell...
MINNEAPOLIS—Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson '94 moderated a discussion on the emerging trends among the youth vote in elections during an Institute of Politics panel event held on Tuesday in conjunction with the Republican National Convention...