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Swiss investigators have identified the badly burned body of Luc Jouret -- the big cheese in the Order of the Solar Temple cult whose 50 plus members were found dead in Switzerland and Canada last week. Jouret's whereabouts had so far been unknown and police even had a warrant out for his arrest for murdering some of his followers. Police did, however, nab another suspected cult member: Patrick Vuarnet, the son of the French skiing champion Jean Vuarnet, who won the 1960 Olympic downhill and now heads the upscale eyeglass company. He was taken into custody in connection with...
Tarantino's and Bender's company is called A Band Apart, after Bande a Part (Band of Outsiders), the 1964 film about two hoods and a femme fatale that Jean-Luc Godard based on an American paperback novel. But where Godard used pulp fiction as an excuse to discuss the philosophy of the boulevards and the boudoir, Tarantino is true to the genre's moral muscularity; he's interested in the philosophy of the abattoir. His tough guys chat about life's iniquities and inequities, about hamburgers, the Bible, the ethics of foot massage, the perfidy of women...
...coming week, however, the most important vote is the one the summitteers themselves may take to replace Commission President Jacques Delors, who steps down in December after 10 historic years. The race is between Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, supported by France and Germany, and outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, now cast as the British and "small-country" candidate. Both will be in Corfu, and each can, in principle, veto the other. Should make for an interesting meeting...
...Like an actor in a play who quietly leaves the stage after a sublime performance before the audience can erupt into applause, the show closed gracefully, without heralding or fanfare, bang or whimper. In the final scene, the seven crew members who had meant most to the show--Jean Luc, Deanna Troi, Whorf, Data, Geordi, Commander Riker, and Dr. Crusher--sat around a table after escaping their hairiest adventure ever, playing cards and talking over life. It was an elegant exit and the essence of good art, leaving me, and I'm sure all watching, wanting more...
...same wistful, "longing for more" that I felt then--perhaps Jean--Luc suddenly breaking character and inviting us to continue the adventure in our own lives, or maybe a '90s anachronism telling us they know we're watching them, or perhaps some final note after the credits, thanking us for our loyalty over the years-that same wistful feeling is the sort of thing I feel now as life at Harvard winds to its close. But I don't want grace and elegance; I want a loud and raucous send-off to give meaning to the four years of living...