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...police procedural, an accretion of small, agonizing details, rather like the recent Zodiac, which opened in the U.S. in March and is being shown in competition here. And since anyone interested in seeing A Mighty Heart is likely to know the awful outcome, the film also has an inherent lack of drama, despite Jolie's commitment to the project and her occasionally volcanic histrionics. The interest, such as there is, comes from seeing how the authorities manage to elicit the evidence (sometimes by torture), and how so many Pakistanis are implicated in the crime, at least by their sympathy with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mighty Hearts and Dark Deeds | 5/21/2007 | See Source »

...Like most docu-dramatists, Moore loves to show the tears of those screwed by the System; in Sicko, at least seven interviewees start crying as they describe the lack of attention their maladies got. And when they're not getting misty over the inhumanity of it all, you may - when you see surveillance footage of mentally disoriented outpatients from the high-end University of Southern California hospital who are put in a cab and dumped near an L.A. Skid Row homeless facility when their coverage runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sicko Is Socko | 5/19/2007 | See Source »

Sundquist cast the undergraduate-led effort to wire rooms with television as a response to Harvard officials’ lack of action on the matter...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cable TV Could Come to Houses | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

...iceberg, a highly visible example of a more widespread and insidious phenomenon. Instead of trying to contest this viewpoint, students would best be served by using this example as a springboard for a greater conversation about our subconscious biases against certain groups of people and the lack of social cohesion on campus. These are topics that lie at the core of what it means to live on a college campus, yet they are all too often shunned or brushed away as taboo. Yet if subconscious racism or racial profiling exists on campus today, it will only abate when students begin...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvard’s Underside | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

Aristotle observed that the young man is not a profitable student of politics, due to his lack of experience and his susceptibility to the passions—a fact Harvard students may have known, had they a true liberal education...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: The Politics of Drudgery | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

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