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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...would have really loved to portray how many people were really there, but to do so was impossible, because the protest was so spread out on the different avenues and streets,” he says. “I just have to assume that there were dozens more intersections just like the crowded one I found myself stuck...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Thousand Words | 2/21/2003 | See Source »

...appear on your magazine," wrote a Massachusetts woman. A Texan called it "an image of Big Brother." But a North Carolina reader saw something quite different: "Rumsfeld's eyes in your portrait have the same look as those of Michelangelo's David. Some say the sculptor tried to portray David at the moment when he determined to slay the giant. Perhaps Rumsfeld is regarding Saddam or a false Goliath of terrorism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 17, 2003 | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...goal was to portray the emotional turmoil these cases produce for all participants,” he wrote in an e-mail. “In the end, confronting those emotions, I felt that the legal system is not equipped to provide assaugement or a sense of world restored in the case of a crime as primal and horrifying as murder; to the extent that we expect that from capital punishment it fails...

Author: By Julia E. Twarog, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Alum's New Novel Takes on Death Penalty | 2/7/2003 | See Source »

Refugee children, mainly recruited by Sellars from the International Center at Cambridge Ringe and Latin School, portray Herakles’ exiled children. International Center Director Arnold Clayton describes Sellars’ presentation to the students as “mesmerizing...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taking Refuge | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

...movie begins with scenes taken from the footage for one of Moss’ earliest films, Riverdogs, which documented one of the last river trips that he made with his friends. The images—immediately distinguishable from the modern footage by their grainy, nostalgic texture—portray the experiences of a group of seventeen twenty-somethings reluctant to abandon the adolescence that they have long outgrown...

Author: By Ben B. Chung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: VES Lecturer’s Film Screens at Sundance | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

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