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...their own humanity: Anna has become a lesbian for political reasons and her ex-husband Lasse (Ola Norell) cannot accept it, no matter what he believes. Goran (Gustaf Hammarsten), the film’s emotional center, cannot accept his open relationship with his self-absorbed girlfriend (Anja Lundqvist) Lena, not because he is bourgeois, but because she’s having noisy sex in the next room—and telling him about it. We soon realize these people are no better or worse than the rest of us; they are merely people...
...chickpeas forever. Elizabeth, with her cheesy music and relatively conventional wisdom, has forced her new friends to think not about what should make them happy, but what does make them happy. Perhaps her greatest influence is in forcing her brother to confront his rapidly degenerating relationship with Lena, a confrontation that climaxes with a rapid, noisy, raucous scene that is one of the film’s highlights...
Without giving too much of the ending away, I can say that Together manages to stay touching, while steering clear of heartwarming predictability; the film condemns no one, not the selfish Lena, not Rolf, Elisabeth’s alcoholic husband; not even Frederick’s supremely bourgeois mother. The film tells a story about real people, stumbling through life, and the movie knows what the characters eventually learn: that one cannot be happy living behind the rigid walls of idealism. It is to the film’s credit that it never tells us how things should...
...Past recipients of the Radcliffe Medal include singer Lena Horne, Harvard President Emeritus Derek C. Bok, American Red Cross President Elizabeth Dole, Washington Post Publisher Katherine Graham, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Harvard Overseer Doris Kearns Goodwin, and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno...
...SIBERIA Airborne Icebreakers Target River Lena Four Sukhoi-24 aircraft were ordered into the air by Russian President Vladimir Putin last week to bomb ice floes in the River Lena, which had overflowed its banks and flooded large areas of eastern Siberia. The aircraft used 80 bombs to break up the packed ice over an 80-km stretch of the river. Backed up floodwaters had inundated the town of Lensk, above, in the Yakutia region, where 400 houses were washed away and another 1,700 damaged. Nearly 30,000 people were evacuated...