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...Scarface Nation: The Ultimate Gangster Movie and How It Changed America Ken Tucker St. Martin's Griffin; 288 pages...
...Scarface Nation details the 70-year history of the Scarface story, reconstructs the juicy details of the 1983 Brian De Palma / Oliver Stone / Al Pacino production, and then traces the cultural fallout - questioning how this "antidrug movie [became,] in its pop-cultural afterlife, a pro-thug movie." In being fair to both those who hail the crime thriller as a survivalist masterpiece and those who consider it a blunder of grotesque gratuitousness, Tucker bolsters his argument that whatever your opinion on the film, Scarface cannot be dismissed...
...throwing a party in Los Angeles this week, on the eve of the Los Angeles Auto Show, to celebrate the re-birth of its classic Mustang. Though the car will likely reach showrooms in March, 2009, it is already stirring interest among what Ford's representatives excitedly call 'Mustang Nation,' the legion of owners and other devoted fans. "Some of the Mustang web sites are already talking about the [car's] new rear end," says Robert Gelardi, the senior Ford Designer responsible for the car's new look...
...Administration will still be in charge - thus the real focus will be on next year's summit, in Copenhagen, when Obama will hold the reins and the world will face its self-imposed deadline to pass a new Kyoto Protocol. Green activists hope that Obama's plans for a national carbon cap will help break the logjam that has kept global climate talks largely frozen for years, including the debate over whether the U.S. or developing countries should move first. Bush has argued that a global climate deal is meaningless unless the big developing nations are required to take action...
...Year award three months into the school year, but the Crimson’s Louis Caputo has a tremendous head start.Harvard wrestling suffered a devastating blow last spring, when the already-ailing co-captain endured a knee injury that shelved the grappler for an entire semester.Ranked eighth in the nation after an All-American sophomore campaign in 2007, Caputo looked to have a breakout season, but he instead found himself on hiatus from Harvard, preserving his final two years of eligibility by taking the semester off.Still, as the Blue Springs, Mo. native has proven time and again, his heart never...