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...show is an equal-opportunity stereotyper, assigning the ladies such Deliverance-subtle tasks as picking up roadkill and buying pigs' feet. (The brand on the jar, inexplicably, is blurred out. When is a pigs'-feet maker ever going to get a product placement again?) There's the genius of The Simple Life: it plays with the tension between rich and poor using such extreme examples that the audience can feel superior to both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Class Action | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

...With his departure, humanity has lost its eminent genius who had actively contributed to every cultural, intellectual and creative fields,” Arafat said...

Author: By Ivana V. Katic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Edward Said, Vocal Palestinian Advocate and Scholar, Dies at 67 | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

Hehir, a 1977 graduate of HDS, won a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” for his role in writing the 1983 Catholic Bishops Statement on Nuclear Weapons, which advocated eventual nuclear disarmament...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hehir Named Boston Catholic Charities Head | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

...does not take a sports genius to pick out the deciding factor in the most recent women’s soccer contests between Harvard and Penn...

Author: By Jonathan P. Hay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Looks To Defend Penn's Cross | 9/26/2003 | See Source »

LENI RIEFENSTAHL might be remembered as cinema's greatest woman director or as its most gifted documentary filmmaker, whose two-part Olympia, a record of the 1936 Summer Games, pioneered techniques and attitudes copied in virtually all TV sports coverage. Instead, she is vilified as the venal genius who glamorized the Hitler myth in 1935's Triumph of the Will. This record of a Nazi Party Congress rally in Nuremberg still sickens with its close-up view of the spellbinding Fuhrer (this was the original Springtime for Hitler), still enthralls with the artful precision of its editing craft. A wily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 22, 2003 | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

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