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Directed by Roman Polanski...
When filming a seminal piece of English literature like Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” the conservative choice for a director is to keep the work as loyal to the source material as possible. The truly great directors, such as Roman Polanski, go a step beyond. These directors will never completely betray the original work, yet they give the film a signature feel, whether it is by altering the story to shed new light on the characters or simply creating a rich visual world for the characters to inhabit...
...have managed to get people talking about the Internet because of something interesting rather than pedophiles and viruses." LUCA MORI, Italian computer programmer who found the remains of an ancient Roman villa near his home while looking at satellite images on Google Earth, a map website run by the popular search-engine company...
...English 10b: Major British Writers. In a similar anomaly, there are Core classes whose ratio of athletes to meager physiques is much more advantageous than usual. A casual visitor might be deluded into believing that Harvard students actually keep in shape. No one can explain why each semester Roman Games and Shakespearean Genres are so well-attended by varsity players, though whispers about team-writing term papers do abound...
...monasteries go, Taizè is young- a full millennium younger than the nearby medieval abbey of Cluny. Moreover, though it now includes 13 Roman Catholic members, Taizè was founded as a Protestant community in 1940. A Swiss theology student named Roger Schutz, then 25, came to France looking for a site for a Protestant experiment in monasticism. Schutz also wanted to help refugees from Nazism and thus chose the hamlet of Taizè, near France's German-occupied zone. There he and a few colleagues spent two years hiding Jews and others fleeing persecution...In the early 1960s, without...