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...difference between Hollywood and European films: the first has to keep you jazzed every minute, while the second assumes that, having bought your ticket, you'll stick around through the simmering accumulation of details. In that sense, The Ghost Writer is as comforting in its temperate pace and eerie mood as it is chilling in its plot particulars. Polanski feigns interest in the genre's requisite chases, but he's best at stranding the Ghost in wide frame, on a turbulent island, and tightening the noose around his neck as he gets closer to an awful truth. Alexandre Desplat...
Congratulations to Jack A. Ausick ’13 of Greenough, Colin Zwanziger ’13 of Wigglesworth, and Zauzmer (who is also a Crimson editor) of Straus, who came in first, second and third respectively. Really, if only spelling were an Olympic sport, Harvard frosh could totally dominate...
...wrong. Unlike many who follow the sport (and even some skaters themselves), I'm actually a fan of the new scoring system, the "code of points," first used in Torino. I think it's raised the level of skating skill to impressive levels in ways that don't always come across on television. The edges are sharper and deeper, the footwork is cleaner and crisper, and the spins are tighter and, frankly, more like spins than the squats some skaters were getting away with for years. (See 25 Olympic athletes to watch...
...insecurity in the region? Two reasons are terrorists and drug smugglers, who have been attracted to West Africa by its weak governments and whose presence has weakened them further. First, the region has become a staging ground for operations by militant Islamists calling themselves al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a group largely made up of Algerian fighters who fled south in the late 1990s after losing a decade-long war against the government. AQIM specializes in the kidnapping - and occasional execution - of foreigners, something that prompted the Paris-Dakar rally to move to South America...
...strategy that certainly paid off on Thursday, making him the U.S.'s first Olympic men's skating champion since Brian Boitano in 1988. But at some point, amid all the calculating and constructing, you start to miss the good old-fashioned bravado that's a big part of any competition. "When you show up to a figure-skating event, if you don't have the hardest jump, from the time you're a little boy, you are apologizing a little bit," says Wylie. "I remember being little and showing up at competitions, and everyone asked, 'What jumps do you have...