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...have to admire the economy of Guest's work, his ability to work on a small scale and his deadpan skill at keeping his actors on the emotional reservation - calmly facing down emotional chaos. But what is really terrific about his quietly insinuating work - especially as it flies in the face of Borat's moment - is its (dare I say it?) compassion. He doesn't have or encourage contempt for his people. He loves them in the manner that Preston Sturges once loved his improbable dreamers - without sentimentalizing them but without forgetting that like all of us their misplaced passions...
...leading rusher spearheads a Bulldogs’ ground assault that posts a robust 207.4 yards per game. However, Yale hasn’t faced a rushing defense of Harvard’s staunchness. Senior tackle Michael Berg leads a unit that rates an 8.5 on the Mohs scale of hardness, somewhere between topaz and corundum. They should be able to handcuff McLeod, and, I’m guessing, Bulldogs QB Matt Polhemus, untested because of the run game’s success (21 pass attempts per game, five touchdowns in nine outings) isn’t prepared for the challenge...
...will run through Feb. 25 at the Fogg Art Museum. The shirt is a sardonic contemporary comment among a plethora of protest prints in an exhibit that spans six centuries and features works from playing cards and t-shirts to images by Goya, Picasso and Warhol. For its scale, the show is incredibly comprehensive in its scope. Representative pieces from movements as dissimilar as AIDS awareness and backlash against Louis Philippe’s constitutional monarchy share the gallery’s walls, united in inky rebellion.Opening on the heels of this year’s midterm elections, the exhibit...
...Middle East’s major faiths together to pay homage to their common ancestor, the GNP’s latest project might contribute to greater understanding of the tensions between them.“[The route] can be a catalyst for intercultural interaction on a large scale, so that people can understand the roots of the problem as well as the roots of civilization itself,” says Ury. He also identifies the path as a potential “magnet for tourism and economic development.”After a year spent building support for the project...
...since last February when the bombing of the al-Askari Shi'ite shrine in Samarra sparked a frenzy of sectarian killing. Hayden ticked off the problems: "There remains in Iraq today an active insurgency, a broad al-Qaeda offensive targeting us and Iraqis, criminality and lawlessness on a broad scale, rival militias competing for power...