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Again it was the stick of Fried that set things into motion, chipping the puck to his longtime teammate and friend just outside the Clarkson blue line...
...veils came off last Tuesday. Two hundred women had assembled outside the Kabul apartment of Soraya Parlika, Afghanistan's most prominent woman activist, and--in one motion--they all lifted their burkas. "It was a very emotional moment," says Parlika. "After years the women of Afghanistan came out in the open. Under the Taliban we all wore burkas and did not know each other. Now we all know each other's faces...
...when we last visited. Although this awareness of transience has been around so long, we resist change, or at least we want it to be imperceptible, millimetric. This is how we manage to turn a blind eye to life's one immutable: death. We like our flux in slow motion...
Murphy cites the recent “bin Laden” order—a motion sponsored by Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 linking Harvard’s money to Osama bin Laden and calling for University donations after Sept. 11—as an example of an unproductive move in the City Council chamber...
...descend into art-house glumness. Whenever the plot shows signs of faltering, the campy keyboard player is summoned for another one-liner. (Such as: "It's so anal being straight!") There are enough inside jokes to keep Malaysian audiences happy without alienating international ones. It is Malaysia's first motion picture shot almost completely in English, and U.S. giant Columbia TriStar plans to distribute it in Singapore later this year and possibly throughout Asia...