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...Afghan culture, women are seen as the repository of family honor, and the education of girls--whether in terms of the design of school buildings or in the way in which classes are conducted--needs to reflect that reality," says Matt Waldman, the Afghan policy adviser for Oxfam, which released a damning report in 2006 on the state of education in Afghanistan. It shows that the ratio of boys to girls in primary school is roughly 2 to 1, but by the time girls enter secondary school (and puberty), the ratio drops to four boys for every girl. In more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan's Girl Gap | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...Dylan made a pilgrimage to Woody Guthrie. Decades later, Southern Sacred Harp royalty generously embraced the wild-eyed newcomers--many of whom were nonbelievers--in what Awake My Soul co-director Matt Hinton calls "red-state, blue-state harmony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give Me That Old-Time Singing | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...since the movie - written by Drew Goddard, from an idea by producer J.J. Abrams, and directed by Matt Reeves - purports to be a video document "retrieved at an incident site formerly known as Central Park" (now known as U.S. 447), and is told exclusively from the point of view of a few twentysomethings. We know only what they know, see what the videocamera sees. I.e., not much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corliss on Cloverfield: The Blair Witch Reject | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

However, the truly standout performances of Act One were vocal. While several long numbers lacked energy and weighed the act down, the sparkle of snakeskin brightened the play’s first half. Snakes Kyle J. Dancewicz ’11, Matt Stone ’11, Christina J. Kelly ’09, Julianne I. Ross ’11, and Tisa Vo ’11 convinced Eve to eat the fruit in an exciting show tune-like number. Miller also contributed a brilliant performance as Cain, capturing restlessness and anguish in his beautiful, deep voice...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Children of Eden’ is Idyllic | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

...team, freshmen Alyssa Devlin and Cara Sprague placed 30th in the 5K freestyle and 39th in the 10K classic, respectively. “We had a big step up with freshman coming in big for the team,” said men’s alpine captain Matt Basilico. Captain Oliver Burruss recorded the top times for the men’s Nordic team in the 10K freestyle and 10K classic, finishing 42nd and 59th, respectively. Women’s alpine captain Alexandra Teng and sophomore Tess Wood finished 36th and 37th, respectively, in the slalom event on Saturday. Basilico...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Skiing Kicks Off At Bates Carnival | 1/13/2008 | See Source »

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