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Graham, 58, has spent his entire professional career at Harvard, specializing in study of the Middle East. He has taught several popular undergraduate Core courses, including Literature and Arts A-80, “To Far Away Places: Literature of Journey and Quest...
...their continuing quest for respite from an economically induced malaise, Japanese consumers are now buying gadgets that promise to lift spirits by filling the air with negative ions. In case you have forgotten your high school chemistry, negative ions are charged particles released from H20 molecules when they collide. The air is normally full of them, and some claim the more there are, the merrier everyone is?that negative ions are natural mood enhancers: relieving stress and even inducing weight loss. Manufacturers in recent months have flooded the market with devices that supposedly boost the negative-ion count, ranging from...
...little bigger and blinkier than a VCR remote but able to power down the whole world. The kids have to recover it before it falls into the wrong hands. But this movie's delight is in its homey details, personified by the scary creatures they encounter on their quest. These are retro-hip homages to Ray Harryhausen's charming stop-motion animations of an earlier era. Their presence signals Rodriguez's desire to sustain his innocence - and evoke ours. Be prepared for enchantment. -By Richard Schickel...
...Easter eggs" (hidden extras) in DVDs, cameos are a cute freebie for viewers--an inside joke even outsiders can get. And stars enjoy spending a day or two working for scale and promoting themselves as good sports. Sometimes, a bit of deception is required. Says Soderbergh of his quest to land Pitt and Fincher: "I used each of them to get the other. I told Brad David was doing it; I told David Brad was doing...
...girl he says he raised from birth. "We buried the body and brought the head back, cooked it and ate it." He pauses to demand a $2 donation. "Good story, no?" While most of this is innocent, some followers, like Karmakar, are inevitably emboldened to take their quest for power to the extreme. Karmakar, like many others, was caught. But in the dust-bowl villages of India, where superstition reigns and blood has a dark authority, the question is how many other "holy men" have found that ultimate power still rests in the murderous magic of a virgin sacrifice...