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...bunch of super-butch Greeks storming Thermopylae, but with fewer casualties and a different ending, the no-star antique war drama 300 triumphed at the box office last weekend. Director Zack Snyder's adaptation of the graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) pulled in $70.9 million, the highest domestic gross for a movie released in March, and third best for an R-rated film. Since sword-and-sandal epics tend to do much bigger business abroad (Gladiator 59% of its theatrical take, Troy 73%), the upside for 300 is enormous...
...right, any movie, from Happy Feet to Hannibal Rising, can be a metaphor for Iraq. But we'll pass along the percolating argument that Leonidas is George W. Bush. In brief: Over the protests of the highest government (the Ephors or the U.N.), a commander-in-chief goes to war with an undersize army against a formidable Middle-Eastern power. All so he could say, as Leonidas does: "We rescued a world from mysticism and tyranny...
...More potent similarities can be found between 300 and the R-rated film with the all-time highest opening-weekend gross. Consider: It's the beyond-bloody saga of an ancient king who leads a high-minded rebellion against a corrupt hierarchy, who endures extraordinary physical abuse before dying nobly, and whose name has been praised throughout history. In other words, 300 is The Passion of the Christ...
...report on teaching and learning has been most significantly overshadowed by the ongoing debate over general education and its future at Harvard.The Faculty is scheduled to vote on general education legislation by May 1, according to Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles. The Faculty Council, the highest governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will review a draft of the legislation at its meeting next Wednesday.ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOMSome professors expressed concern about the report’s emphasis on Faculty members rather than students, saying that the report’s authors, in seeking...
...ties between powerful politicians and criminal paramilitaries have brought down eight lawmakers and forced out President Alvaro Uribe's intelligence chief and foreign minister in the last four months. A new U.N. report says extra-judicial killings by the military are rising in the country. Colombia had the highest murder rate of trade unionists in the world and 4,000 disappearances last year, according to Human Rights Watch...