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...Cabaret,” co-directed by Patrick H. Quinn ’10 and Juan D. Camero ’10 and produced by Julia K. Lindpaintner ’09, is set during the rise of Fascism in pre-World War II Germany...
...Fuzz takes me back to the days of America's rampant Anglophilia - a three-decade stretch from Alec Guinness' Ealing comedies of the immediate postwar era through the rise of Peter Sellers, Beyond the Fringe and the Beatles (whom we saw as essentially a musical comedy team) and culminating in Monty Python's Flying Circus. A lot of American kids got a lot of their sense of humor from these inspired sources; and so, on the evidence, did Wright and Pegg. Shaun of the Dead was shot at Ealing, and takes its skewed vision of English community from the films...
...trying to draw attention to the absurdity of his own treatment or the irrationality of his society’s response to a particular event. More often than not, these moments are alienating as well as unnecessary. The book’s final chapters criticize Hamas’s rise to power and the construction of the fence in the West Bank as two serious impediments to the peace process. In this case, the timing of the book’s publication seems auspicious: at a time when the situation seems as close to hopeless as it?...
...virtual alliance with al-Qaeda to intensify the fight and take it to an international level," says Christophe Chaboud, head of France's Anti-Terrorism Coordination Unit. "The association with al-Qaeda is a real and major preoccupation." But, says Chaboud, such a partnership has yet to give rise to even a nascent federation of al-Qaeda groups across north Africa. Even within borders, jihadist groups remain disparate, atomized, and insulated to prevent infiltration...
...Tony Blair?" He responded: "I'm doing a Kevin. And let me tell you, that means putting our best step forward for the economy of the 21st century and that means no turning back. It means that we've got to embrace the challenges of the new century, the rise of China, the big challenges of climate change, producing the best skilled workforce in the Western world and catching up to the government's failure to date on establishing a national broadband network." Doing a Kevin is a singular work in progress. Rudd and Labor are joined in a movable...