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...wrecked the possibility of dtente with Rome. Navarro-Valls said that the Pope was willing to continue discussions about normalizing relations so long as Beijing agreed to stop ordaining bishops on its own. But some Vatican officials say that Beijing may not find Benedict in such a generous mood in the future. Says a senior Vatican official: "It's a demonstration of bad faith on the part of the Chinese government ... [they] are used to playing these mind games, of using brinkmanship." Of course, that's a game the Vatican knows how to play as well...
...FILM VILLAIN. For a bad guy, M:i:III has Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose Owen Davian is surprisingly unmannered. He does not twirl a mustache or stroke a cat; he's just a bad dude in a worse mood, simmering and glowering. Does Hoffman class up the film or lower its temperature? Argue both sides...
...were so "indie" they were nearly isolated: Robert Frank and Jack Smith. I skipped the Rossellini movie, though it was made by the wonderful Canadian zany Guy Maddin, because I heard that some members of the Rossellini family were outraged by it, and I was not in a mood to take sides between two groups I respect. In Robert Frank: Leaving Home Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank, director Gerald Fox manages to pry open the can of steely reserve the director-photographer normally encases himself in, and in the process opens up not only Frank (who will...
...Film Villain. For a bad guy, M:i:III has Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose Owen Davian is surprisingly unmannered. He does not twirl a mustache or stroke a cat; he?s just a bad dude in a worse mood, simmering and glowering. Does Hoffman class up the film or lower its temperature? Argue both sides...
...Harvard students, we often commend ourselves on the diversity of our personal interests and our shared inability to shake addictions to mood elevating prescription drugs. But in doing this, we myopically ignore the most beleaguered and varied population on our campus—Teaching Fellows. Or, as I like to call them, “TFs.”TFs come in many different forms, but they all have the same job: teaching a crap-load of thankless material to a room full of phenomenally annoying 18-year-olds.Some have come to terms with this fact and are extremely jolly in consequence...