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...liberality. In 1972 Oscar welcomed back Charles Chaplin, another distinguished foreigner who liked his girls young. It happens that "The Pianist" was a perfect comeback film: a Holocaust film that (like "Schindler's List") is about a Jew outliving Hitler with the help of the goyim; and a semi-autobiography of Polanski, himself a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and after all these years eligible to be considered not a cunning predator but a wily victim. It's also a good movie in Hollywood epic style: a precise, conventional melodrama that teems with acute observations on the behavior of besieged...
...Jantzen’s quest for a National Championship are Arizona State’s No. 1 Eric Larkin and Minnesota’s No. 2 Jared Lawrence. Jantzen’s only loss of the season came at the hands of Larkin, who defeated Jantzen in the semi-finals of the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational 10-4, held early in the season...
Lawrence has also dealt Jantzen a heartbreaking loss of his own. Last year he defeated Jantzen in the semi-finals en route to his NCAA championship, but the early-season losses to Larkin have caused him great worries about his chances to repeat as a national champion. Even themat.com has picked Jantzen to face Larkin in the final bout...
Elsewhere, Colgate visits third-seeded Dartmouth, while Brown and Yale will meet in New Haven. The semi-finals in Albany, N.Y., on March 21 await each of the series’ four winners...
Carens began to rally support for Fenstermacher in the days leading up to last Wednesday’s semi-annual HUCTW membership meeting. He distributed a flyer to many HUCTW members accusing union leadership of being too weak in advocacy, including in Fenstermacher’s case...