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...petty or flagrant crime, you'll be reminded of Pixote and City of God and Oliver Twist and a dozen Indian musical melodramas - which are more sanitized by far but display the same obsession for family ties and first love, and are just as unashamed in pushing feelings of joy and despair to the apogee of passion. Jamal's search for his long-lost lifetime love Latika is the stuff of Indian-pop films from the Raj Kapoor era to today. True to its roots, Slumdog, adapted from the novel Q&A by Vikas Swarup, ends with a chastely rapturous...
...that lives off finding hidden points in the kicking game. It’s the only school I know where the fans stand up and pay rapt attention whenever the special teams come on the field. The Hokies even call their punt-block unit “Pride and Joy.” It’s a local obsession, but it’s paid huge dividends.That said, I hope you haven’t paid attention to the Crimson’s special teams this season—or last, for that matter. Harvard currently sits last...
...Kameron A. Collins ’09, who had gathered with some 200 other members of the Black Students Association at the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub to watch the election-night returns, shared with the Crimson his great-grandmother’s joy at Obama’s victory. “With a black man in the White House,” Mr. Collins’s family concluded that the nonagenarian now “could die happy”: as he explained, “there’s nothing else she could need...
...prophet guides the people in their way of life, spanning topics from the mundane—“Eating and Drinking,” “Houses,” “Law”—to the profound—“Joy and Sorrow” and “Death.” The language is simple, making repeated use of nature as an illustrative symbol. Gibran indeed relies heavily on lyrical analogies to convey his philosophical theories. For those among us unversed in reading pure philosophy, Gibran is thus doing...
...capital “C,” as no more than fleeting concepts cooked-up in David Axelrod’s think tank. But such a view is typical of those suffering from a poverty of human understanding. As the world discovered on Tuesday, within each teardrop of joy, Hope is a very much a real and palpable force: It both presupposes and invigorates our ability to change our world. Today, in the United States and across the globe, the politics of Hope means the future begins now. Hope is on the move...