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Sometimes words speak louder than actions. In Canberra on Feb. 13, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd voiced regret "for the pain, suffering and hurt" of the country's disadvantaged Aboriginal minority. It was a cloudy morning, but the crowd outside Parliament House was in a sunny mood. People brown and white laughed, embraced and snapped photos. Said Mavis Garrett, 67, an Aboriginal woman from Queensland: "If I see Mr. Rudd, I think I'd just run up and give...
...simply knew him from his movies [Feb. 4]. He had so much more to offer. I will remember him best for his poignant portrayal of Ennis Del Mar, one of the gay cowboys in Brokeback Mountain. Ledger showed great sensitivity and understanding in conveying all the joy and pain his character experienced. That is the measure of a great actor. For that, Ledger will be truly missed. Frederick R. Bedell Jr., BELLEROSE...
Crème Café is moving into 27 Brattle St., a storefront near the intersection of Brattle St. and Mass. Ave. that was formerly occupied by an Au Bon Pain. The owners say Crème Café will be an alternative to national chain coffee shops in the Square, because the proprietors plan on getting to know their customers intimately...
...because we’ve ceased to think about courses as pursuits and given over entirely to thinking of them as obligations. A favorite word to look for in the Q is ‘painless’, as if the predominant emotion felt in a class is otherwise pain and misery. A study card has more in common now with an income tax form than with an expression of intellectual curiosity. It’s easy to file this commentary into a bin of wistful idealism, but there are very real ramifications to the rampant quantification of our academic...
...Bruce Weber’s 1988 documentary, when legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker betrays a rare moment of honesty. When Baker learns in an interview that he’s secured a shipment of prescription painkillers from a doctor in Europe, the once-great artist looks with the pain of a mendicant in his eyes and says, “I didn’t know if I would make it through the week.”Screened for the first time in ten years this past weekend at the Brattle Theater, “Let?...