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...with his fourth Oscar nod, and he'd love to add another trophy to the one he took home for Gandhi (1982). But his ambitions are bigger than any industry prize. He's on a mission to restore the tradition of tragedy - think Shakespeare or Sophocles - in a world fond of "illusory and bogus" happy endings. His medium may be film, but Kingsley, 60, prefers the label "storyteller." "And when I use the word storyteller," he says, "I use it in the ancient tradition - one who excites, who shows, who heals." There seems to be a lot more hurting than...
...order a bottle of pale pink Château La Canorgue, made just outside the village. Though the days when rosé was scorned are gone, the good stuff tends not to travel, and there's still some not-so-good stuff around (Saddam Hussein was said to be fond of Mateus rosé, a vestige of the bad old days). But now rosé is making a bid for the mainstream, as winemakers try to anticipate the next trend in a fickle market. Wineries like Château Sainte Marguerite from Côtes de Provence are producing crisp...
Ensler says she knows Vagina Warriors when she sees them because of their clarity of purpose, their strength and fearlessness. Ensler is fond of talking about her hero, a Kenyan Vagina Warrior named Agnes Pareyio...
...history studies who hole themselves up here for a year of study. It is something of a cult to visit, marked only with a discreet note on the electronic security gate that opens into paradise for art scholars. Respect for the founder abounds: one veteran of the center is fond of using the term “Berensonian” and situating time with the terms “pre-Berensonian,” “post-Berensonian.” There are no signs that this is part of Harvard until one peers in the windows and sees...
Moreover, the villa gives Harvard an international component that surely benefits both sides of the Atlantic. Harvard is fond of calling itself a “global institution,” though demonstrations of this commitment are harder to come by. But at the villa, scholars come from worldwide, and it demonstrates an attentiveness to the world beyond the narrow confines of Harvard Yard and a history beyond that of the University?...