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...challenge of the season when No. 15 Brown comes to Ohiri Field this coming Saturday. The Bears, who beat Princeton, 2-1, in overtime to start their Ancient Eight campaign on Saturday, are the only other Ivy League school in the national rankings. —Staff writer Julia R. Senior can be reached at jrsenior@fas.harvard.edu...
...that cachet and banked it on a Mandarin-language drama that has earned the Motion Picture Association's NC-17 rating (no children under 17). That rating will keep Lust, Caution out of many cinemas because lots of theater owners won't show films with a rating harder than R. Nor, if current standards hold, will the dvd be available at Wal-Mart or Blockbuster. But the $83 million theatrical take of Brokeback makes some in the film community hope that Lee's new movie will cue a box-office breakthrough for adults-only dramas...
Since 1968, when the ratings system was introduced, its classifications--G for general audiences, PG for parental guidance, PG-13 for sterner stuff kids could still see and R, restricting children's attendance except with an adult--have adapted to accommodate the evolving tastes of moviegoers. The G now goes to few films because parents figure a PG (say, Shrek the Third) is safe. The R promises hot stuff for fanboys, which has translated into hits in several genres: violent action (300), raunchy humor (Superbad) and lurid horror (the Saw franchise). PG-13 has become the money rating...
...this editorial in salute to Representative Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), a true patriot. In this perilous time, in a nation that is threatening to be overtaken by pusillanimous pinkoes, it takes a special sort of man to defend the idea that freedom is a privilege, not a right...
...hand...nobody can come and help you. Nobody can protect you and live peacefully in this country.” Her speech was followed by presentations from Mark A. McDowell, a Canadian diplomat who had covered Burma while stationed in Bangkok for the last four years, and Tyler R. Giannini, the clinical director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. McDowell, who has made an estimated 25 visits to the country, said the western perception of Myanmar is not entirely correct. “There’s a picture drawn of Burma in the west of being...