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Since new oilfields and copper mines take years to get into full production, lower investment today causes tighter supply down the road. At the same time, there is every reason to believe that emerging markets such as China and India will continue to be ever more voracious consumers of iron ore, oil and food as their economies get bigger and their citizens richer. Palm oil prices, for example, have been rising of late partly because demand from India, with its population of 1 billion, is holding up. In March, China imported a record amount of iron ore and coal, while...
...world of Mexican soccer. In “Y tu mamá también,” Carlos Cuarón’s screenplay paired two sexually-charged teenagers—played by Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna—on a road-trip through Mexico alongside a more mature female companion from Spain. Eight years later, “Rudo y Cursi” reunites Luna, as goalie Beto, and García Bernal, as striker Tato, in a tragicomic tale of two Mexican “campesinos” in the city?...
...files and drawers are now being catalogued in HOLLIS and VIA (Visual Information Access) for the first time. Japanese albums containing largely hand-colored albumen prints, photographs of Renaissance and Baroque architecture and sculpture, records of Nicaragua before and after the 1979 revolution, and photographs documenting a 1922 road trip from Pakistan to Afghanistan are among the objects that will now be made available on HOLLIS. While the benefits of cataloguing will be enjoyed by generations of future Harvard students, the Littauer location is only temporary. Pending approval, the Fine Arts Library is likely to move into the Sackler building...
...infidelity here, a dash of marijuana there—the suburban Eden post-apple is a common enough story. Film, especially, is a repeat offender of this fixation on suburbia’s trouble in paradise; “Revolutionary Road,” “The Stepford Wives,” and “American Beauty,” for example, are a few of the many films that deal with the farce of suburban bliss. Director Derick Martini’s latest dramedy, “Lymelife,” is another, but it strips that...
...much to the genre of the political thriller, but it delivers entertainment that at least makes the audience think and question. It falls somewhere between the insipidness of a “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” and the painful seriousness of a “Revolutionary Road.” “State of Play” is simply smart entertainment, which seems to have become something of a rarity in Hollywood. —Staff writer Claire J. Saffitz can be reached at csaffitz@fas.harvard.edu...