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...nation whose long quest for glory has honed a fine appreciation for the art of borrowing. And when the more conventional minds of the French cultural establishment - along with their self-occupied counterparts abroad - stop fretting about decline and start applauding the ferment on the fringes, France will reclaim its reputation as a cultural power, a land where every new season brings a harvest of genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of Lost Time | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...This week the military launched an operation to reclaim control of Swat, sending in 15,000 troops, helicopters, tanks and armored vehicles to battle a ragtag army of some 500 militants. The goal is to push them back into their mountain redoubts, far from the civilian population. "We will bottle up as many of them as possible, and then eliminate them," says General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, Director General of Military operations. The army says that hundreds of militants have already been killed. That's a number militant spokesman Sirajuddin, who only has one name, dismisses as "totally rubbish. Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Taliban at the Gates | 11/20/2007 | See Source »

...undefeated record to 4-0-0 on the season, and propels it into a three-way tie atop the conference standings with St. Lawrence and Dartmouth.On the heels of a semifinal loss to the St. Lawrence in last season’s ECAC Tournament, Harvard is looking ready to reclaim the conference title it captured each of the previous three years.“We’re starting to play a little bit smarter,” coach Katey Stone said. “It’s a long season and we try to make it a sprint...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Skaters Pitch Weekend Shutout in ECAC | 11/18/2007 | See Source »

...equilibrium in the human brain, causing very irrational criminal behavior.” Santaros and his porn-star lover Krysta Now, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar (“Cruel Intentions”), work to put the screenplay together, but in the course of their efforts, Santaros begins to reclaim his memory and unearths a governmental plot that has the potential to destroy the earth. People planning to see this movie should not hope for the next “Donnie Darko.” Kelly, the director of both films, appears to realize that he will not surpass...

Author: By Jenny J. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Southland Tales | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...especially thinking of the poignant scene in which Prospero breaks his staff and drowns his book in the sea, thus relinquishing the magical powers that have made him the ruler of the island. Prospero, who will return to Milan to reclaim power, is too much a scholar and a mystic to really succeed in earthly politics. He will never be more at home than he has been on his island. So why does he give...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Torpor Clouds a Strong ‘Tempest’ | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

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