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...Rosetta attempts to join the ranks of the paid masses, it becomes painfully obvious that the system that she so desperately wants to enter is also the cause of her misery. Directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (La Promesse) pull no punches in their commentary. It is not political, but in their frank, documentary-influenced auteurism, simply presented for evaluation. After viewing the debased actions to which the principle characters are reduced, the only conclusion is to condemn the establishment of work as the cause of Rosetta's suffering...
What would you do for a job--a menial, drudging job in a bakery or selling clothes that never were in fashion? If you are Rosetta (Emilie Dequenne), a teenager in today's depressed Belgium, the answer is anything. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's Rosetta, which earned this year's Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or and a Best Actress prize for Dequenne, is the close-up portrait of a girl for whom need has become obsession...
...Drink Scotch and watch several Jean-Luc Godard films from his unwatchable Maoist period...
...scouts have long realized that there's one thing you can't teach even the most skilled basketball player--height. In search of verticality, the long arm of U.S. basketball recruiting has stretched out in the past two decades from Australia (the Phoenix Suns' 7-ft. 2-in. Luc Longley) to Yugoslavia (the Sacramento Kings' 7-ft. 1-in. Vlade Divac) and now, gingerly, to China. Wang Zhizhi--who shoots like a dream and dribbles pretty nimbly--has the one thing that NBA scouts know even four years of NCAA ball could never give him--7 ft. 1 in. Says...
...classes, which are taught primarily by Hau S. Luc '00 and Michael Y. Saji '02, are held at the South End Technology Center at Tent City. The Technology Center, which boasts some 15 computers, as well as printers, projectors and other equipment, is open until midnight five days a week to anyone who wants to drop...