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...resumed the following year, now in May, now an annual event. (The 1968 edition was aborted midterm, in response to the Paris street revolts.) In its early days Cannes and Venice were the only major film festivals; now every town larger than Podunk has a yearly movie bash. (Note to editor: Please check to make sure Podunk doesn't have a film festival.) Berlin may be more serious, Amsterdam hipper, Sundance more focused, Toronto more congenial. But Cannes, with its 40,000 visitors from around the world, remains the gold standard for movie conclaves...
...society some have tried to portray it as. Maybe if more of us listened to Christ's truthful message, we wouldn't be surprised by people who try to live by it. At a minimum, there's the intriguing idea that all politicians, especially those in Latin America, should note: the solution to the problem of poverty is not to identify with the poor but to make them members of the middle class. Oscar Islas Mexico City...
...Themsche had shaved his head just days before his shooting spree. But a note later recovered from his home by police suggests that his racist politics was more deeply rooted. His father had been a founding member of the Vlaams Blok, the anti-immigration, Flemish separatist party renamed Vlaams Belang, or Flemish Interest, in 2004 in a bid to broaden its appeal. His aunt, Frieda Van Themsche, is a VB member of the Belgian parliament. And VB is no fringe party: it got 24% of the Flemish vote in 2004 regional elections, making it the largest party in Flanders, Belgium...
According to an editor’s note at the front of the unassuming 14-page glossy, the magazine, delivered to dorms last week, is supposed to fall somewhere in between a “serious and stately broadside of the modern campus left” and a collection of “fart jokes...
...meter run with a dramatic finish. She beat out Nyam Kagwima of Cornell by just 0.1 seconds to take the event in 4:26.82. Likewise, freshman Becky Christensen was a champion. She cleared 1.75 meters in the high jump to win the event for the Crimson. Other runners of note include senior Stevie DeGroff, who took fourth in the 100 meter dash. Freshman Dara Wilson impressed in her first outdoor Heptagonals with a second-place finish in the 100 meter hurdles. In the relays, the team of Maludzinski, sophomore Erika Geihe, freshman Jan Ng, and classmate Aishlinn...