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...Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, stationed on a barren speck of land near the heart of Greenland's ice sheet to decode the island's climatic history, is among TIME's heroes for the environment. These scientists, activists, financiers and political and religious leaders--chronicled in the following pages--display a passion for the planet that just might save...
...money is on the screen, and so are his prickliness and passion. Tender, angry, unafraid of mixing comedy and sentiment, Lee's pictures bulge with so many ideas, they're hard to contain. Sometimes he holds them together through sheer nerve, as in the loopy racial satire Bamboozled; in other films, like Do the Right Thing, the story eventually explodes in the moviegoer's face. All the audience can expect is to be lectured, hassled and entertained...
Candace Bushnell is the Evelyn Waugh of our time. Or she would be if Waugh had been a) a woman and b) a terrible writer. Waugh was a true wit and a master stylist who loved and despised his subjects (the English upper classes) with such a hopeless passion that he ended up capturing them completely. Bushnell does something very similar with rich people in New York City. Just without the wit or the style...
...Kolbe ’08 was a casual athlete. She dabbled in volleyball, softball, and soccer, but never imagined she might compete on the world stage. As part of her rehab program after the accident, Kolbe started swimming—and discovered a new talent, and a new passion. Last week, Kolbe returned from the Beijing Paralympics, having placed 5th in the world in the 50-meter freestyle and 8th in the 50-meter backstroke. Kolbe said she has no regrets about the accident. “You’re surrounded by team U.S.A., and you go down...
...First Steps,” an abstract piece that only at second glance (and with an explanation) shows a woman guiding a child, are malleable and soft, comprised of one continuous shape with infinite contours. The titles of his pieces in this genre again reflect his passion for life, but with an approach distinct from his classical pieces. Yet their liveliness seems strained; at this level of abstraction, where “blob” comes to mind quicker than “art,” Wein’s work underwhelms. It is really only when Wein...