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...Chihuahua: an adorable, pampered L.A. dog gets dropped into an alien environment and has to find its way back home, learning lessons of friendship, confidence and self-reliance en route. (It's also the premise of 140,000 other movies about animals, kids or hobbits.) Bolt fits this familiar mold without looking moldy. Its visual style is unpretentiously attractive, with a limber graphic line, and there's little showboating in the design or the dialogue. Directors Chris Williams and Byron Howard are perfectly pleased to have labored in the service of that humblest of genres, the dog cartoon. (See TIME...
...torn corners of Asia and the Middle East. As growing numbers of people flee Iraq, Afghanistan and the Caucasus, human traffickers have begun using the route from the southwest coast of Turkey to several eastern Greek islands as a back door to European territory, adding it to more familiar passages from North Africa to Sicily, Lampedusa, Malta and the Canary Islands. The number of illegal immigrants arriving in Greece has surged over the past year. Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos estimates that 150,000 of them will be picked up sneaking into Greece in 2008, more than three times as many...
Half of the new quartet of requirements may use some of the same material from 10a and 10b, according to one English professor who preferred not to be named. The courses could be smaller, a contrast to the impersonal lecture halls that have become familiar to concentrators...
English 10a and 10b, the long-standing surveys of canonical works (and bane of many an aspiring Harvard litterateur), will cease to be taught within the next two years, according to two English professors familiar with the department’s discussions...
...already achieved so many firsts for my race and I knew in my heart that being the first black president of the U.S. was next. And then he came. With only the advantage of age over me, a black man from Chicago who went to Harvard (sound familiar?) stole my dream. But a strange thing happened to me as I watched Barack embark on his historic journey to the White House. Since he first announced his candidacy, I could not help but cheer for him because even though I would have to sacrifice my own dream, it would mean...