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...themes that Miller grapples with in Rebirth extend beyond the pinpointing of unchanged cultural trends. For Miller, his Rebirth of a Nation is also a reevaluation of Griffith’s film, as well as a reassessment of American history...
...differences between socioeconomic classes. Harvard Student Agency Cleaners, for example, lets some students pick up clean and neatly-folded clothes in crackling plastic bags. The less well-off among us, however, make semi-weekly journeys to the basement with bulging mesh laundry bags and quarters in hand. These differences extend to the social sphere as well—to final clubs composed predominately of wealthy young men, or to basic activities, like eating out, that some students cannot afford to enjoy. But while class differences are a fact of life—yes, there are both rich and poor people...
...stirring attempts to extend their acting chops, The Rock plays a very fey openly homosexual man, Andre 3000 channels 50 Cent, Christina Milian is a sultry up-and-coming R&B star, Danny DeVito is a short, aging actor, Steven Tyler plays Steven Tyler, and John Travolta pretends that he does not increasingly resemble Steven Segal...
...poor Indians reside. Chidambaram, a Harvard-educated lawyer who is the stock market's favorite Finance Minister of all time, did not ignore the middle class: he cut and streamlined taxes. Yet the thrust of his budget was aimed at the poor. Among his new proposals: a plan to extend irrigation to 10 million hectares of agricultural land over five years?a move that could, theoretically, give employment to 10 million Indians in the countryside. Other measures include boosting rural employment, building 6 million houses for the poor by 2009, bringing electricity to 125,000 villages, and nearly doubling...
Harvard was able to contain Penn’s explosive guards—a key heading into the contest—but the lesser-known members of the Quakers’ rotation were left free to bury the Crimson and extend the team’s protracted winless drought at The Palestra...