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Clearly the McCanns saw the inevitable renewed interest the anniversary would bring as a chance to not only make new pleas for information, but to perhaps rehabilitate their shaky image. Hence, the access they gave the documentary filmmaker for ITV, a major British channel, and a subsequent inteview they gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madeleine McCann, One Year Later | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...greeted me with the same big smile and handshake I had gotten 20 minutes earlier. Same pleas to get home: "Please, can't you help me, Scott?" (I gave him the same "We're working on it" cop-out.) He regaled me with a different story about the boys at the club, though, with different details. But no reference to my earlier rounds. When I asked, "Do you remember what we talked about 20 minutes ago?" he was all smiles and familiar reassurances. But when I asked for specifics, they were wrong. That was it. He was confabulating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When What the Patient Wants Isn't Best | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

“Where do Jews come from?” asks a character in the first act of “A Little Night Yiddish.” The play, written by Laura M. Togut ’08, may not answer this question, but it certainly gives the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One-Liners Translate in ‘Yiddish,’ But Plot Line Does Not | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

In director David Gordon Green’s new film, “Snow Angels,” hardly a scene goes by without the presence of snow. The title is ironic, however, given that snow falls on characters who are often ugly, spiteful, and selfish. In a film that...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Snow Angels | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

But the oil companies' pleas were largely ignored at the summit. As if to underscore Big Oil's shrinking clout in the oil world, the summit's most powerful delegate - Saudi oil minister Ali Al-Naimi - arrived after the big guns from the oil companies had left, and was mobbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPEC: Gas Prices Will Stay High | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

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