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...Bees is another entry in the long tradition of books and movies about whites being nurtured and schooled by the example of the black underling. (You've heard of Huckleberry Finn? Gone With the Wind?) The novel is set in rural South Carolina in 1964, which is just about the time it would have automatically been turned into an Oscar-nominated movie. The obvious reference point is To Kill a Mockingbird, whose girl narrator, Scout Finch, is 6 to Lily's 14, and whose fictional setting is Maycomb, Ala., instead of Bees' Tiburon, S.C. But that was back when most...
...concerns are less global and more spiritual. The former owner of our land, a rice farmer, feels guilty because he failed to erect an on-site shrine to a local goddess. He thinks we should build it to ease his soul and promote village harmony. After all, locals have heard the spirits on our land wailing when they use a nearby water source. Then, in an offhand remark, our shaman tells us about a Frenchman who had built a villa nearby. Wija was called in to bless the land and chat with the spirits about their wishes. He gave advice...
...didn’t even tell his blockmates about the film.“I actually found out through one of my listservs,” said Justin R. Butler ’11, Zisiadis’ roommate.Butler and blockmate Luke L. Sperduto ’11 heard rumors since last year that their blockmate was in a movie of some kind. Sperduto said he thought it was a smaller project that had already come out.It was not until someone happened to see the trailer for “Frontrunners” on Apple’s Web site that...
...Xing said has been sanitized. Xing said that the Chinese government has intentionally tried to distort information about the Cultural Revolution and that through his film, he hopes to provide the next generation with accurate information about that period in history. “The cruelties I experienced and heard remain in my memory,” Xing said in an interview through an interpreter. In one particularly graphic scene, a woman describes finding her headmaster disemboweled and beaten to death behind the schoolhouse. Later in the film, a man recounts his mother’s shooting, using...
Merema M. Ahmed was a high school senior in Fargo, N.D., when she first heard about QuestBridge, a college matching program for low-income students.A 4.0 student, she was still unsure how she would afford college. She said her family’s financial situation was “definitely not well-off or stable.”The program’s early application deadline meant a scramble to research as many schools as quickly as possible. “Being from the midwest, I don’t know too much about Ivy League schools...