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...well educated, is fluent in more than one language, has good taste and is well groomed? If being elected President of the U.S. requires a candidate to speak like Clint Eastwood in a bad western, pretend to like Philly cheesesteaks and appeal to lowest-common-denominator redneck values, then God help us! Please give American voters more credit. Neil Fox Helsinki...
...Frogs revolves around the adventures of Dionysus (Nick J. Reifsnyder ’05), the god of drama, who is distraught by the horrible quality of tragedies that are being written. With the help of his comic slave Xanthias (Joe L. Dimento ’05) and the soup-obsessed Hercules (Brandon J. Smith ’04) he descends into hell to find a better playwright. In the second half, two dead poets, the tweedy old-fashioned Aeschylus (Benet Magnuson ’06) and the Bohemian Euripides (Alex H. Salskov ’04), face...
...from their homes. Camping out in a friend's apartment in the divided town of Mitrovica, medical student Ivan Radic, 30, a Kosovo Serb, said he has lost touch with his mother and uncle, who had been seeking refuge somewhere in central Kosovo. "I am so worried," said Radic. "God knows when I will see my family again." What broke Kosovo's hopeful peace? The events that triggered last week's violence were unremarkable. On Monday, a Serb teen was hit in a drive-by shooting. The next day, three ethnic Albanian boys in Mitrovica drowned in the swollen Ibar...
...four Oscar nominations, and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction...
Director Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ represents the teachings of Jesus through a gore-drenched recreation of the final 12 hours before his death. Here, the son of God is a wholly human figure, and Gibson constantly reminds his audience of this with an unceasing depiction of shredded flesh and spattered blood. The effect is alternately piercing and numbing. Nevertheless, Gibson eventually succeeds in overwhelming his audience with the kind of potent visual poignancy unseen in his previous directorial work. The telling of the story is equally effective, as screenwriters Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald (Wise...