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...Leolo Little boy lost: French-Canadian writer-director Jean-Claude Lauzon takes this familiar theme and replaces its sentimentality with luscious surrealism. No family could be more horrifying than little Leo's, no boy more frantic to find refuge in fantasy, no movie bolder in fashioning domestic tragedy into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST MOVIES OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...that, these four men reasserted the principle that leaders matter: that an individual's vision, courageously and persuasively and intelligently pursued, can override the rather unimaginative human preference for war. If strong, focused leadership had come from Europe or from Washington, might it have averted the Bosnian bloodbath? If Jean-Bertrand Aristide were a Mandela -- and if he had some equivalent of De Klerk as partner on the other side -- could Haiti have been saved? No one can quantify a negative, but it seems obvious that the absence of leadership -- the opportunities squandered or unenvisioned -- costs the world dearly every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEACEMAKERS TO CONQUER THE PAST | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...peacemakers, and few in number. Still, in the words of Dominique Moisi, deputy director of the French Institute of International Relations: ''The fact that Muslim and Jew, black and white, accept each other proves that war between civilizations is not inevitable. This sends out a global message of hope.'' Jean Cocteau remarked in his memoirs that stupidity is always amazing to behold, no matter how often one has encountered it. If war represents at bottom a kind of moral stupidity, the Men of the Year were making their way out of that violent region and toward a better part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEACEMAKERS TO CONQUER THE PAST | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

DIED. MOSES GUNN, 64, actor; from complications of asthma; in Guilford, Connecticut. Cofounder of the Negro Ensemble Company, Gunn, the oldest of seven children of a St. Louis, Missouri, laborer, made his off-Broadway debut in the legendary New York premiere of Jean Genet's provocative The Blacks (1962). Gunn won Obie awards for his work in Titus Andronicus (1967) and The First Breeze of Summer (1975), and was admired for his Othello. Movie credits included The Great White Hope (1970) and Shaft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: DIED: MOSES GUNN | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...Harvard Concert Commission (HCC)’s Nov. 6 concert featuring Wyclef Jean was cancelled last night because of lackluster ticket sales, Undergraduate Council (UC) President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 announced at an emergency UC meeting last night. According to HCC Chairman Jack P. McCambridge ’06, the concert’s cancellation will cost the HCC between $25,000 and $30,000. As of yesterday, concert organizers had sold less than half the tickets needed to break even with only four days left before the show. “We were contractually obligated...

Author: By Alexander D. Blankfein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wyclef Concert Cancelled After Slow Sales | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

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