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...film’s premise is quite ordinary. Aaron, a quirky, experimental musician, falls for Madeleine (Marley Shelton), a trendy Chelsea gallerist, and the two struggle through the difficulties of art and love. The morose hipster boyfriend is a comfortable role for Goldberg, who portrayed a similar character in 2007’s “Two Days in Paris...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: (Untitled) | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

Patents significantly increase the price of drugs in these nations due to the lack of competition from producers of the similar product, he said. Without a patent, the generic drug is likely to become more affordable...

Author: By Linda Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Pledges To Make Medical Technology Accessible | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...rest of the play continues in a similar vein, with scenes and songs based on Poe’s poetry and his difficult experiences—both romantic and maternal—with women. As each woman sequentially enters and leaves the stage, a new dimension of meaning is placed upon each poem; the muse behind the words is unveiled. The women separately represent something to Edgar, a trait of character or quality of life that he never had. Amongst many impressive performances, Joelle Kross as Virginia, Poe’s 13-year old bride and first cousin, is particularly...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Nevermore’ Reimagines Poe | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...Nabokov—no stranger to “lexical commingling”—persistently described the title character in a series of epithets (“polite Pnin,” “brave Pnin” etc). Alexander’s narrator has a similar obsession for self-characterization. “Subnormal,” “heteromorphic,” “perpetual like Assyrian cups,” “not like Odysseus” or Vasco da Gama, but rather “Egyptian or Phoenician...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Epic Poem Wanting Ambition | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...country's overwhelmed nursing-home system. Appreciating the magnitude of the coming crisis, the U.S. government has begun to respond. Two new initiatives - Nursing Home Diversion and Money Follows the Person - expand subsidies for home elder care, and the Veterans Health Administration has just put in effect its own similar initiative. "The whole trend will be into home care, because nursing homes are too expensive," Eppel says, noting that nursing-home care in the U.S. costs about $85,000 annually per resident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

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