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...some themes, it appears, are eternal. We curled up together this weekend, my daughter and I, as I read Twilight for the first time, she for the third. It's not 19th century London, but the modern Pacific Northwest is appropriately misty. Here we meet the bright, chaste, passionate heroine Bella and the dark, mysterious and certainly dangerous hero Edward, son of a vampire family that has sworn off human blood but still struggles with the temptation. He has a way of appearing when she's in danger, scooping her into his unnaturally strong arms and carrying her to safety...
...selling fast. "We think it's possible to connect with nature through technology," Verdier says. "It's for people who care about the environment and prefer to go with a smaller and smarter design." For those seeking a more grounded way to travel, the retro style and modern amenities of the Verdier just might be the way to roll (www.verdier.ca...
...Vietnamese Student Associations brought together Vietnamese students from nine different schools in a two-day event hosted by the Harvard Vietnamese Association this weekend. “We tailored the entire summit program to expose students to Vietnam not only in terms of its history and culture, but also modern Vietnam in an economic and political sense,” said Tri D. Chiem ’10, co-president of the Harvard Vietnamese Association. “We wanted to get the participants to go away from the program feeling they have been enriched with new perspectives on their...
...Jess soon learns that he has stumbled into a sisterhood of modern mystical sorceresses who, page by page, short-circuit every last one of his ingrained, materialist expectations about the universe and his true place in it. Mysterious potions are drunk, lingering glances exchanged, and the mundane world falls away to reveal a visionary landscape of miracles, marvels and fulfilled hearts - one that, Jess discovers, had been there all along, just waiting for him to stumble on it. "We didn't lead you into an illusion," Dolly explains to Jess as he struggles to find his bearings in this dizzying...
...hour-long documentary, which focuses on the epidemic in twentieth century and the state of tuberculosis in the modern world, played to an audience of the about 50 people...