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...world are deteriorating,” Knafel said in an interview after his remarks. “The [military] approach we’re using has created more issues than it has resolved.”The dedication was preceded by a trumpet fanfare—an excerpt from Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique—performed by Darryl J. Campbell ’06, Michael P. Corayer ’06, and Scott M. McKinney ’09, members of the Harvard Band. The dedication celebrated the completion of CGIS after a long and arduous process...
...effort to lay the "dirty war" to rest, Argentina's Congress set last February as the deadline for civilians to lodge new complaints. Army Chief of Staff General Hector Rios Erenu reportedly promised army leaders that at most 100 more officers would face charges. Says Timerman: "The problem was that in all there were about 400. The officers had nothing specifically against Alfonsin, but they felt that Rios Erenu had gone against his word." The rebels' demands last week included Rios Erenu's resignation...
Spider Woman was filmed in Brazil (in English), directed by the Argentine-born Hector Babenco from a script by the American Leonard Schrader and a novel by the Argentine Manuel Puig. This time the artistic melting pot bubbled to perfection. The film's gaudily stylized performances (notably Hurt's, which has grandeur about it), all its tonalities, both visual and verbal, are pitched one notch above the naturalistic. Thus Babenco may subtly explore issues, both political and psychological, that are usually dulled by moviemakers' earnestness and self-importance. Full of sudden startlements and twists, the film is delighted...
...result, I have become the environmental movement's dream convert. I pore over news reports of the latest oil-company atrocity; I hector my family about their oversize vehicles; I buy only organic milk and eggs laid by vegetarian, cage-free, anxiety-free chickens; and I'm an easy mark for any ecoactivist in search of a signature on his petition...
Plucking children from obscurity and making them stars, even for one movie, can be perilous, as the kid actors from almost any '80s TV show can attest. And even Fernando Ramos da Silva, the illiterate Brazilian boy who starred at 12 in Hector Babenco's Pixote, returned to the streets and, when he was 19, was killed by police. There are milder dangers: Boyle is worried that Etel, having carried his first film, might be disappointed if he doesn't get another big role. "The business can be very loving and also very hurtful, almost simultaneously," Boyle says...