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...Plenty of commentators have criticized Gibson's defense-cum-promotion of The Passion as meso-Messianic. When he declines to denounce his father Hunter, an extreme religious and political right-winger who has in articles and interviews come close to denying the Nazi holocaust, Mad Mel is supposedly seeing himself as the suffering Jesus and his dad as God the Father-He who demands the ultimate sacrifice, He who must be obeyed. Mel has also sounded addled, even paranoid, when he said that making this movie was putting his career on the line. But, as the saying goes, just because...
Another area of concern for the Big Green of late has been its situation between the pipes. In its 2-1 victory over Harvard earlier in the season, the play of Christine Capuano held Harvard in check throughout the game—especially in fending off the mad rush of Harvard shots that came late in the third period...
...Dreyfuss (Mr. Holland’s Opus) and Eric Stoltz (Pulp Fiction) star in this new production of Arthur Penn’s 1976 Broadway hit entitled Sly Fox. Foxwell J. Sly (Dreyfuss) is a con man operating at the emergence of the Gold Rush in San Francisco. The mad zeal for glittering nuggets proves to be a perfect opportunity for Sly and his assistant to make a tidy sum. The screenplay, written by Larry Gelbart, is a reimagining of Ben Jonson’s darkly comedic Volpone. The production will also feature Bronson...
...best sense of humor in the face of overwhelming gossip and most deft use of plausible deniability, to none other than Ruth C. Havel '05 herself. In a week of heightened sensitivities on campus, Harvard’s very own master and commander, Havel, instead of getting mad, got revenge, as only she knows how. Ouch...
...development was rather predictable. Bush’s unilateral decision in December 2001 to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty with Russia set the stage for a miniature arms race. The ABM treaty existed to maintain the long-standing, effective principle of mutually assured destruction (MAD). MAD, however, requires that the each country accept some level of vulnerability—and with Bush refusing to do so, Russia felt compelled to develop systems capable of penetrating present and future U.S. defenses...