Word: morocco
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...rritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga have investigated this chance-is-destiny theme before, in Amores Perros and 21 Grams. This time, the canvas is larger, stretching from California and Mexico to Morocco and Japan. The weaving of the three story strands is dextrous; the performances, especially by Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett as a very harried married couple and Rinko Kikuchi as a deaf-mute Tokyo teen, are fierce and acute. Then coincidence keeps piling on improbability, and the viewer's interest sours into exasperation. Yes, bad things can happen to decent people. But compared to the calamities that befall...
...event here is a simple act of generosity: a Japanese man (Kôji Yakusho), on a hunt in Morocco, gives his local guide his Winchester rifle as a present. The guide sells the gun to a goatherd, who entrusts it to his two pre-teen sons to keep jackals away from the herd. The younger son, Yussef (Boubker Ait El Caid), a better shot with a more reckless disposition, tests the rifle's shooting distance by taking thoughtless aim at a bus on the road below their mountain redoubt. He fires, critically wounding one of the tourists inside...
...have to take time off or work during the summer if they wish to study the lingering effects of sharecropping and the Reconstruction in the American south, the public housing crisis in Chicago, or issues of immigration in Texas. If a Harvard student can organize a semester in Morocco with one application and a few clicks of the mouse, she should have similar ease in planning a course of study that will open her eyes to unfamiliar aspects of her own nation. Emma M. Lind ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, lives in Grays Hall...
...hold his own with native Spaniards. Not that Savalli thinks of himself as African. His home country is France. Born in the southern city of Arles, he's a product of the kind of integration that seemed so absent during the recent French riots: his mother was born in Morocco; his father comes from Italy. He has never set foot in North Africa, does not speak Arabic, and frequently eats pork. And, he says, "the Muslim Matador that people speak of - he is another person, not me. I'm French." French or Spanish, Muslim or Christian, it doesn't seem...
...gentler clime, where the sun smiles brightly, exotic flora perfume the air and the prices are forgiving? Tahir Shah did, and the result is The Caliph's House, a wry, energetic account of how the travel writer moved his pregnant wife, Rachana, and young daughter, Ariane, from London to Morocco, which he knew from childhood vacations. Think you've heard this all before, perhaps in Peter Mayle's best-selling A Year in Provence and its sequels, or Frances Mayes' tales of Tuscan transplantation? They were wimps compared to Shah. In addition to dealing with the usual slothful house-renovation...