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...Power (aka Chan Marshall) has spent her career becoming one of the leaders of the female tortured singer-songwriter genre, laying claim to the crown held previously by Aimee Mann and Liz Phair. If Marshall was the queen, “The Greatest” will be remembered as her abdication—a movement into happier, if less fruitful, territory. The genre has traditionally espoused an ethic of independence, but for this dishonestly named album, she sought out help, moving to Memphis to record with a backing band filled with some of country music’s old-hands...
Yesterday marked the first day of the 2006 Harvard baseball season. For a team that opened its first official practice last night without 2005 lynchpin Schuyler Mann ’05, as well as three early departures to Major League organizations, there was an awful lot to buzz about...
...Davos. The Alps. The crunch of snow. the setting for Thomas Mann's gigantic novel The Magic Mountain and for the World Economic Forum's equally gigantic annual gathering of 2,000-plus business leaders, politicians, academics and other influential types. The hand wringing over the world's economic, social and political problems. The search for creative solutions. The schmoozing. The parties. And, this year, the waft of curry overpowering the heavy Schweizerdeutsch fare. India everywhere, said the signs, and it was. The Finance Minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, and the Commerce and Industry Minister, Kamal Nath, turned up from Delhi...
...ages the actress resisted offers to go West. But her reluctance dissolved with Geisha. "I didn't even know what potential I had before making Geisha," she says. She is now shooting the Michael Mann film version of Miami Vice (with Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell) and will then be in Peter Webber's Lecter prequel Young Hannibal. "I don't feel this is a big barrier for me anymore," she says of acting in English. (Mind you, she says it through a translator.) "I'm very pleased to be working with the best American directors...
...convenient fiction that American history starts with Columbus. In 1491, Mann tells the story of a lost world of vast, glittering, wealthy cities, sophisticated cultures and an agricultural economy built without the aid of horses or, largely, the wheel--all destroyed by the epidemics initiated by contact with Europe. The Indians whom the Pilgrims encountered were only the last survivors, refugees from a civilization that had already collapsed...