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With all eyes on Allston development, I fear poor Dunster, Lowell, and Winthrop will be forgotten. For all the concern about student social space on campus, there seems to be no hope in sight for student living space. The Penthouse Café and fancy Pub aren’t going to improve senior satisfaction surveys until the illogical interiors of the oldest houses are remodeled for the 21st century...
...concrete symbol of that which is wrong with the country's economic boom. The structure was built a few years ago as surrounding farmlands were being turned into residential developments. It was supposed to be the Communist Party's local power center. But there are no cadres in sight. Since July 2, Xiantang has had no leadership...
...thing, this war is tragic but not inherently dramatic. The useful clichs of old war films--capturing a hill from the bad guys, getting an enemy uniform in gun sight, wooing a pretty maiden in a distant land--don't apply to a conflict on city streets, with the enemy in mufti and the local women off-limits. For another, the number of soldiers at risk in Iraq is, compared with past conflicts, relatively small--a niche market, if you will, like the audience that has paid to see Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah (with Tommy...
...critic, I give the Iraq films now in release passing marks for good intentions and audiences an incomplete for poor attendance. Although nonfiction directors have tackled the war vigorously, from Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 to Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight, it looks as if we may have to wait for Hollywood's definitive Iraq-war film. But that's the way the movie industry works. In the decade that the U.S. military spent in Vietnam, only a few films surfaced, including John Wayne's bombastic The Green Berets and De Palma's anarchic comedies Greetings...
...leads, fails inexcusably with its script. The magic of García Márquez, evident in these first scenes, makes only rare appearances throughout the rest of the film.“Love in the Time of Cholera” begins in 1880 with fervent first-sight love. The young Florentino Ariza, played by Javier Bardem (“The Sea Inside”), comes across the beautiful Fermina Daza, played by popular Italian actress Giovanna Mezzogiorno. Although no words are exchanged, they fall desperately in love. Though physical consummation is prevented by their differing social statuses and Fermina?...