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...Keeping it real was key to Dillon's vision. Influenced by sources as varied as Samuel Fuller's low-budget House of Bamboo and Joseph Conrad's nightmarish novel Heart of Darkness, City of Ghosts is the first Western movie to capture the atmosphere of post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia: the land-mine casualties, the lawless streets and the gentle Buddhist spirit that provides whatever strength remains in the country. "I didn't want to make a film that was like a postcard," says Dillon. "That's why I didn't shoot at Angkor?you can see that on the Travel...
...wrong way." Once Gaylor moved out, the couple claimed to have received a divine direction to sell off all their belongings. At one point, Mitchell and Barzee were both excommunicated by the Mormon church, possibly for promoting polygamy, which is outlawed. "I watched these people go down," says Cornelius Samuel West, a naturopathic physician, who invited Mitchell and Barzee to sleep in his basement. "At first he was clean-shaven and coherent. Then he grew the beard and went into his Jesus act." One day, after the two men argued about Mormonism, the couple suddenly left without saying goodbye...
...long have antiglobalists feared giant corporations? Well, Irish satirist Samuel Madden predicted that two companies would eventually control the world economy in his Memoirs of the Twentieth Century--in 1733. Now, in The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, both editors at the Economist, take a Churchillian view: corporations are the worst form of economic organization, except for all the others. The book is an entertaining romp through the highs and lows of corporations since the first compagnia appeared in 12th century Italy. An 18th century British lord complained, "Corporations have neither bodies...
...Samuel M. Simon ’06 lives in Matthews Hall...
...Tiffany I. Hsieh ’04, Ryan J. Kuo ’04, Benjamin J. Soskin ’04, Nathan K. Burstein ’04, Clint J. Froehlich ’05, Ashley Aull ’06, Christopher W. Platts ’06, Samuel H. Perwin ’04, Ben B. Chung ’06, Julia E. Twarog ’05 and Thomas J. Clarke...