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...from their colleagues down the hall. What begins to emerge, almost inferentially from Cooper's taciturn playing, is a portrait of a sharp knife nestled in drawer full of dull ones. A man this bright should have been on the bureau's fast track. Instead, he's on a side track, chugging along a bureaucratic road to nowhere. Hanssen's fuming impatience with the patronizing doofuses who have held him back is well, even comically, stated in the script written by Ray in collaboration with Adam Mazer and William Rotko. So is the barely suppressed tension his double life imposes...
...There is, however, a dark side to Hanssen's excellent adventure. As the film makes clear, a lot of American agents in the former Soviet Union lost their lives because of information he supplied. He may have been playing a game, but they, alas, were not. He seems never to have counted that consequence. Caught and convicted, he is being held in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison, allowed out of his cell for just one hour a day. Should one imagine him still chortling over his dark accomplishments? Or is he, at last, burdened by regret...
...Caram was later spotted standing on a snowbank at the end of the parade route, holding his brass instrument at his side and shouting for Johansson’s attention among a cluster of excited spectators...
...uninformed and anti-intellectual column (“The Apotheosis of Dr. Faust,” Feb. 11) disparaging President-elect Drew Gilpin Faust, whose selection has been greeted by real celebration by those on the more “academic” side of the Harvard spectrum, whether in science or the humanities. Shame, too, on the many undergraduate commentators (visible in The Crimson’s online edition) who make similar comments and claim to be “disappointed” with the selection of Faust—or, worse, who produce outrightly sexist and ignorant rants...
...world now is familiar with Anne's private musings while her family was in hiding from Nazis, Wednesday's release of the Otto Frank file - whose discovery was first reported by TIME.com in January - by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City reveals yet another side of that family's life and what those who tried to survive the Holocaust were facing...