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...police had asked questions, they might have spoken to a reclusive woman named Maya Sarkar, who lived on the same floor, knew most of the victims and worked as a maidservant at the three-story home of Moninder Singh Pandher, a businessman. Pandher and his servant Surender Kohli have now been arrested and charged with kidnapping, raping and killing the victims. Maya Sarkar is finally being questioned by the police...
...generations as one of my proudest achievements.” The goals of the national mentorship campaign are to recognize the work of mentors and to recruit new volunteers, said Susan Moses, the co-director of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Harvard Mentoring Project. Other personalities include Maya Angelou, Clint Eastwood, and Sting, all of whom will be making public service announcements to raise awareness about the importance of mentoring. Jones—after whom Harvard’s first-ever endowed African American music professorship is named—has worked with HSPH for many years, Moses...
...loudspeaker and went on a tirade about how horrible it was that somebody did this, and if somebody ever pulled an alarm again, he would come to Eliot during finals and leave the alarm on,” says Maya E. Frommer ’07. “He even said, ‘People are dying in Iraq, how can you do this?’ Most of us were kind of dumbfounded at why this fireman was screaming at us. Some people were yelling back. It was a hilarious event...
Apocalypto, set in 16th century Latin America, is more of the problematic same. By dawn's early light, a brutish Maya war party falls upon an Edenic jungle village--murder, rape and enslavement their goal. Among their captives is Jaguar Paw who, having hidden his pregnant wife and firstborn, narrowly escapes--a little divine intervention here--having his heart cut out by the Maya high priests. He is then given the opportunity to run to save himself (and his family), which involves a high degree of athleticism and a lot of skill at improvising killing tools from such simple materials...
...care to accept all this as a well-made adventure story, feel free to do so. But taken in Gibsonian context, it is clear that something more than sadism stirs the director's soul. For one thing, he wants us to see that late Maya civilization is analogous in his view to our own. It is given to worshipping false idols and values and, for all its military might, is rotting from within. Even the simple village, before it is destroyed, revels in irrelevant pleasure. What everyone needs is, well, a savior. And that's where Jaguar Paw comes...