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...Coen brothers' "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", was ignored, as were some decent films from the festival's host country. Shinji Aoyama's "Eureka," a 3-hr, 17-min. "interior road movie" about three survivors of a terrorist attack, earned various critics' prizes for its stark beauty and psychological rigor, but the Japanese film was shut out as well in the main contest. And the strongest entry of the entire Festival, Ang Lee's thrilling action fantasy "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," was mysteriously shown out of competition, and thus ineligible for the jury's benediction...
...cavalierly dismissing abortion as just another "medical procedure"--an unscientific and illogical canard of the pro-choice movement for decades--and capping their intolerant argument with a pat, predictable appeal to "diversity," the Crimson does a grave disservice both to intellectual rigor and to the journalistic standards that it claims to uphold...
...Stephanie Sandler has been the most important, inspiring and influential figure in my academic life," she said. "It is through her that I found Russian literature. One of the many things I learned from her is that academic rigor can and should be combined with creative thinking and intellectual risk taking...
Sometimes, as we see from his pictures, people suffer in a setting stripped of anything that identifies this as the modern world. There are no cell phones, no plastic bags, just rigor mortis on bare ground, and each shot is a primordial scene in which you recognize what the late 20th century had in common with, say, the darkest moments of the 6th. Sometimes his pictures include unnerving bits of modern flotsam. In a Rwandan refugee camp in Zaire a young man lies dead in a heap of used plastic intravenous bags. Elsewhere in the camp the corpses are pushed...
...funky, outdoorsman style leads some to overlook the college's genuine academic rigor. In reality, Deep Springs is one of the toughest colleges in the country...