Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Heck, it's not even I.Q. It doesn't so much as mention math in the course of two hours. In fact, it often feels more like a treatise on philosophy than mathematics, an exploration of the role that fate and free will play in our lives a sort of Milan Kundera novel put on film...
...movie is the sheer earnestness of everyone involved. Najwa Nimri and Fele Martinez are captivating as Medem's quasi-incestuous lovers. There's both a passion and an intelligence to their personalities that suits the movie well. They seem to be at once constantly contemplating the strange pull of fate that directs their lives and rebelling against it, trying to make room for emotions in the coldly mathematical world that Medem creates. Medem himself as both writer and director shares this passion and intelligence. Lovers of the Arctic Circle could very easily come across as a pretentious intellectual attack...
Heck, it's not even I.Q. It doesn't so much as mention math in the course of two hours. In fact, it often feels more like a treatise on philosophy than mathematics, an exploration of the role that fate and free will play in our lives a sort of Milan Kundera novel put on film...
...Crimson will receive an automatic bid to the 64-team NCAA tournament. Harvard will learn its fate next Wednesday when pairings are announced, and the team said it is looking forward to the challenge of a regional tournament...
...least two facts about last week's news are cause for skepticism. The first is that the "merger" was negotiated in complete secrecy. Even the Radcliffe staff was informed of the college's fate only last week. The Harvard and Radcliffe communities were presented with a fait accompli. And nobody likes those. Last Wednesday could have represented the culmination of a year-long campus-wide discussion on what is best for Radcliffe. Instead, we got a gleeful announcement from the top: "Hey, guys," they seemed to be saying. "Look what we did! Isn't it great>" Time will tell...