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...utterly unforgivable," said Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. "I am incredibly outraged." Police, however, caution that the motive for the murder remains unclear. As the outspoken head of a Democratic Party of Japan anti-corruption committee known as the "G-Man Squad," Ishii fashioned himself as Japan's Eliot Ness. Ironically, he may have been best known for his 2000 campaign to ban the ultraviolent Japanese teen movie Battle Royale. Murder, it seems, doesn't stop at the screen...
Caitlin M. Van Ness ’05 says her DHAs are “a really great conversation piece. They definitely helped me meet a lot people.” In perhaps the most involved story of DHAs-acqusition, Caitlin got her sweats as a graduation present after she got into Harvard, from the brother of the director of her high school flute group, who played football for the Crimson...
Reluctantly saying that I study in America immediately brings a smile to people’s faces here, as they now associate America with Dubya-ness. Since few Indians know that Bush attended Yale, and most know that he attended Harvard Business School, I’ve stopped daring to mention that I study at Harvard. The last time someone wheedled that out of me I was met with guffaws and the kind of belly-laughter you’d associate with a person slipping on a stray banana-peel on the dirt-strewn pavements of Delhi (yes, that?...
...reality sitcom," would be good enough if it only gave you what you would expect--flying meat, crucifixes on the doors and enough bleeped-out cursing to give Pat Robertson the vapors. And it does. What makes it brilliant is its surprising mundanity, the Pat Boone-y-ness of it all: Ozzy puzzling over the satellite-TV remote, flipping out over Kelly's new tattoo (while sporting a few acres of skin art himself) and struggling to fit liners in the trash...
...Over the past five years, Asian filmmakers have become cinematic darlings in the West, and now too many of them seem to want to highlight their Asian-ness rather than the character development, coherent narrative and compelling dialogue that make for great movies. The pictures crawl and the stories sag under the weight of ponderous orientalism and languorous panoramas reminding us we are in Asia?you know, the land of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. But filmmakers like Zhu Wen and Jeong would do well to remember that just because a film is Chinese or Korean, this doesn't automatically make...