Word: grahams
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...treat these prisoners any differently? Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, speaks to all our fears when he calls them “some of the most brutal, vicious people in the world.” But that accusation is as inaccurate as it is manipulative: A study at Seton Hall University found that only eight percent of the Guantanamo detainees were Al Qaeda fighters, and only 30 percent were determined to be Al Qaeda members—and that’s using a definition of membership that is broad enough to include anyone who ever talked...
...breakfast TV company GM.TV. In September, the regulator imposed a penalty of some $4 million on GM.TV for encouraging viewers to dial premium-rate phone lines to enter competitions after winners had already been picked. ITV has admitted to similar practices. "Television is at a low point," says Graham Stuart, director of independent production company So Television...
...Graham Stuart avers that broadcasters do need stars. He co-founded So Television with Graham Norton, an Irish-born comedian who fronts BBC chat shows and game shows. Norton "is paid a lot of money by the BBC," says Stuart, but "what we're doing here is show business and everything relies on a small number of talented people who are stars. They're the reason people will switch on." He adds: "If Lord Reith, a cranky old Presbyterian, could use the entertainment word, then other people should be able...
...Naipaul is no kinder about other writers such as the English novelists Graham Greene and Anthony Powell, the Trinidadian novelist Sam Selvon, or the Bengali pundit and essayist Nirad Chaudhuri, all of whom were his contemporaries. Greene's The Quiet American is dismissed because it presumed a knowledge of Indo-Chinese politics and Naipaul imperiously claims to not be in the habit of reading the newspapers. Anthony Powell was a good friend - in fact, during the 1950s he helped the young and ambitious Naipaul secure work as a book reviewer for the British magazine the New Statesman, and displayed...
...Arts at Harvard (OFA) at the Harvard Dance Center this past weekend. The program featured discussions with Berensohn, a philosopher and so-called “deep ecologist” at the Penland School of Crafts, as well as performances by Christine Dakin, artistic director laureate of the Martha Graham Dance Company, and Rachel A. Cohen ’96, founder of the performance company Racoco Productions. The interdisciplinary program exposed potters and dancers to each others’ artistic experience. As David J. Tischfield ’09, a ceramicist who runs the Quincy Pottery Studio...