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...process of merging with Harvard. By mastering a staff cut-back that reduced the workforce by 25 percent and reaching out to graduates, Faust managed to heal many of the institute’s wounds, at worst, garnering a nickname that likens her to a fictional serial killer in southwest Texas.‘THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS’Faust arrived at Radcliffe when its decision to merge with Harvard had already been finalized—in a sense. “There’s that saying, ‘the devil is in the details...
...discovery of competitive air guitar, a deliciously addictive niche of pop culture, came unexpectedly at the 2006 South by Southwest Film festival in Austin, Texas. It was there that I stumbled across a film proclaiming to be the “Official Story of America’s Unofficial Pastime.” The film, a documentary feature called “Air Guitar Nation,” follows the determined 2002 search for the first U.S. air guitar champion. While vying for this title, national contenders David “C-Diddy” Jung...
Along the mountainous, 2,600-km span of the Durand Line-the porous border separating Afghanistan and Pakistan-a notorious jihadi is on the loose. He is responsible for guerrilla attacks, sabotage and cruel executions; his religious fanaticism inspires multitudes and threatens to destabilize much of Southwest Asia. Thousands of Western soldiers desperately search for the renegade terrorist in inhospitable terrain. But each time they have him cornered, he and his militia slip away into hidden valleys and caves...
...sitting around...This is the first time I thought man, I really want to take a vacation.”“Vacancy” offers some frightening real-life parallels for Wilson. “I’ve done most of my driving around the southwest, all around Texas. It can always get gnarly around there in the desert. It’s pretty desolate,” he says. “There’s this stretch where it says ‘Next gas 73 miles,’ and I always just have...
...Free or Die” aspires to be a hybrid between “Garden State” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” and it has won jury commendations at both the 2006 Seattle Film Festival and the 2006 South By Southwest Film Festival. Unfortunately, the film’s mixture of soul-searching angst and renegade idealism creates more melancholy than comedy in a cinematic experience that gets old fast. The story is about the rise and fall of John “Rugged” Rudgate (Aaron Stanford...