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...Gish, John Gilbert, Marion Davies and other stars of MGM silents. The slot also is home to early masterworks from France (Jacques Feyder's Queen of Atlantis), Germany (F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh) and Sweden (Victor Sjostrom's Phantom Carriage). The country doesn't matter; all these films speak an eloquent visual language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 15 Reasons to Love Turner Classic Movies | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

More than anything, Shanno's death is a wake-up call to parents to speak up for their own children. Many are afraid to. Indu Bhandari, mother of a five-year-old, says her son often complains about being hit on the head with a pencil by his teacher. "If I complain, she might ill-treat my son more," Bhandari says. At my son's school, I raised the matter for discussion in the parents' forum. We decided to watch how all the children in his school are treated much more closely. For now, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why India's Teachers Do Not Spare the Rod | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...that one of his thesis readers called it a novel rather than a play. “It has old men humping cars and flag burning, but also a Disney sensibility,” he says. At the end of the play, he gives instructions to the audience to speak with one of the characters. “The only stage directions,” he says, “are to continue the conversation until the morning hours.” Such experimentation questions the definition of theater. “Theater can be a large-scale thing with...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Daniel R. Pecci ’09 | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...will be published this December. A planisphere is a two-dimensional projection of a sphere onto a plane, such as a world map or an astronomical chart. Ashbery is reluctant to provide a direct explanation for this title in terms of his poems, preferring instead to let the work speak for itself. Still, he does say that “in a way, every piece of writing is a two-dimensional rendering of life, which is three-dimensional...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Portrait in a Crimson Mirror: JOHN ASHBERY ’49 | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...moderate once, could it moderate itself again? The group's founding charter - which brims with anti-Semitism and rules out conceding any historically Palestinian land - doesn't exactly fill one with hope. On the other hand, Hamas' leader in Damascus, Khaled Mashaal, declared a couple of years ago, "I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that in reality there will be an entity or a state called Israel on the rest of Palestinian land." Ephraim Halevy, a former head of Israel's national intelligence agency, the Mossad, thinks Hamas' leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hamas: U.S. Diplomacy's Final Frontier | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

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