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...points and the first Jope Trophy for best cumulative performance since 1991—due in large part to a victory in the second varsity and the first title for a freshman eight since 1985—a win for the varsity eight again eluded Harvard’s grasp...
...through to his assassination and its aftermath. Smith's primary focus is on the lopsided, bittersweet love story of Jack and Jackie, but she finds time to document in exhaustive detail Kennedy's many infidelities--yes, she digs up a few new ones--as well as Jackie's exceptional grasp of tactical flirtation, cutting off Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev mid-lecture by saying, "Oh, Mr. Chairman, don't bore me with statistics." Somewhere in the background, we glimpse Jack's political evolution from the hothead of the Bay of Pigs to the cool hand of the Cuban missile crisis...
...fighting the good fight on behalf of the student body, Chopra is keeping himself busy, and it seemed he just couldn’t make time for FM. I was crushed until I realized that, like Dorothy’s red slippers, Chopra's semester had been in my grasp all along. In lieu of the actual interview, I took it upon myself to compile my own list of “Rohit sightings” during his time post...
...helping to plan the September 2001 attacks on the U.S., making him the first person to be officially tied to both Sept. 11 and the Madrid bombings in March. Garzón's indictment also revealed that security services earlier let a number of key terror suspects slip their grasp. Azizi fled Spain before police could arrest him in November 2001. A year earlier, Turkish police had detained Azizi in Istanbul, along with fellow Moroccans Said Berraj and Salahedin Benyaich. All three men were released. Berraj is a suspect in the Madrid bombings; Benyaich has been jailed for his role...
Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s latest film mixes the chaos in Paris just before the Nazi occupation with a hearty dash of scandal, intrigue and romance. Although Rappeneau’s recreation of this war-torn era is undeniably excellent, his grasp of plot and characters is tenuous at best and not enough to redeem the film’s many faults. Newcomer Gregori Derangere is the perpetually bemused Frederic, an impoverished writer still in love with his childhood crush. She’s now the popular actress Viviane Denvers (Isabelle Adjani, who looks like she?...