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...Sullivan said. The Globe has reported that Harvard is “scrambling to hire a black coach” after being embarrassed that none of its 41 varsity teams have an African American at the helm.“They’re just getting the best person,” Harris said. “It’s not necessarily African American, white, Asian, Hispanic—it shouldn’t matter. It just happens that two of the frontrunners are African American, but I don’t know who else is being considered...
...child soldier, to say the least, isn’t the kind of person you meet on the street every day. We hear about the faraway conflicts he’s forced into, but he remains little more than a number in the death toll, a nameless perpetrator of a brutality that’s incomprehensible to the modern, Western mind. For Ishmael Beah, though, such a life was reality—a reality that he renders with emotional complexity in “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier.” Beah, a former child...
...when somebody else would write it differently. There usually are many attempts by someone else to write it... and you’ll come in and be like, What happened to my prose? What happened to my ideas? and you’ll have to undo what the previous person did up to a point. They would have been argued out enough that we would say, ‘I don’t always agree with it, but I stand by it.’”INTELLECTUAL FISTICUFFSSince the first issue, topics ranging from modern society?...
...story is about the rise and fall of John “Rugged” Rudgate (Aaron Stanford, “X-Men: The Last Stand”) and his notorious life of crime. Initially, Rugged’s attempts at law-breaking are so pathetic that the only person who thinks he’s cool is his half-wit sidekick, Lagrand (Paul Schneider, “All the Real Girls”). Through twists of fate and macabre miscommunication, however, Rugged bumbles into a status upgrade from town peon to local legend and “cop killer?...
...politics.“It’s not political, it’s very experiential,” Yellin says.Robbins’ own documentary-making ethic centered on staying true to the subjects’ perspectives. “I think if you look at a person like Michael Moore, those are people who are interested in a type of subject and are essentially choosing subjects. For me, they’re making it in the opposite direction,” he says.Initially, Robbins loathed scenario re-creation, but he soon changed his mind: “Once...