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...land in Richard Kelly's Southland Tales is Southern California in the year 2008. The U.S. is under a kind of martial law, because, the narrator says, "After the nuclear attacks on Texas, things got real complicated." The government is trying to harness a hydrokinetic energy called "fluid karma." The country's rebels include prostitutes, arms dealers and various flaky types...
...their status as a student at Harvard, more so than any other identity he or she might have. For example, students who engage in marijuana use over summer, not on campus, should not be disciplined by Harvard, nor should a student in the military who faces a court-martial face additional punishment from the College. Given that these infractions are unrelated to one’s status as a student, their reprimand should be unrelated to the University as well...
...aikido community, involved two days of classes and weapons training as well as a technique demonstration on Saturday. Faust suggested that aikido’s nonconfrontational approach might be a welcome change of pace for Harvard students. “It’s more than a martial art,” he said. “It’s about dealing with life in a positive way. There’s no competition involved.” Maciej Godlewski ’07, the president of the club, said that it was developing greater connections to the aikido...
...APPOINTED. Zhang Yimou, 54, dynamic Chinese film director of everything from rich period dramas (1991's Raise the Red Lantern) to allegorical martial-arts sagas (2004's House of Flying Daggers); as leader of the design team for the 2008 Summer Olympics; in Beijing. Announced last week, the team-which also includes U.S. filmmaker Steven Spielberg-will design the opening and closing ceremonies for the Games...
...supposed to be a sign of changing times in Northern Ireland, not a reminder of its brutal, unforgiving past. Last December, when the IRA veteran admitted being a British agent for more than 20 years, his treachery didn't trigger the normal end for informers - a hasty, secret court-martial and a bullet in the back of the head; only five months before, the IRA had renounced violence for good, and so its political arm, Sinn Fein, promised that Donaldson would be left alone...