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...stranded merely because a bridge is out. They settle into a primitive but largely idyllic existence, despite a few cross-cultural miscues. (The delicious crunchy things turn out to be fried insects; the Karen believe the Younger White Brother is carrying the "Lost Important Writings" - actually a paperback of Stephen King's Misery.) Meanwhile, the tourists' disappearance ignites a global media frenzy, which friends back home hope will pressure the junta to find them - and which the junta manipulates to burnish its image. The situation is ripe for satire, and Tan pours it over her tour bus of fools...
...professor who studies memory using techniques he pioneered in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), is joining Harvard’s psychology department this year from Washington University in St. Louis. At Harvard, Buckner will help form the world’s premier research group on memory, Psychology Department Chair Stephen M. Kosslyn wrote in an e-mail. “The addition of Professor Buckner will allow us to build a research group second to none,” Kosslyn wrote. At age 35, Buckner is considered to be the best researcher of his age group in the field, Kosslyn...
...will lead the Arts Board; David I. Paltiel ’07 and Allen J. Pope ’08 will lead the Design Board; Matthew S. Meisel ’07 and Michael B. Broukhim ’07 will lead the Editorial Board; Stephen M. Fee ’07 and A. Haven Thompson ’07 will lead The Crimson’s weekend magazine, Fifteen Minutes; Jonathan Tsao ’08 and Albert Wu ’07 will lead the Information Technology Board; Joseph L. Abel ’07 and Ravi...
Successful movie are, it's said, the ones whose story and appeal can be expressed in a single sentence. To summarize Syriana, writer-director Stephen Gaghan's drama about petro-politics, you would need a book the size of The 9/11 Commission Report. Hopscotching across the globe, packing enough plots for half a dozen thrillers, refusing easy judgments of its characters, the film has a worldview that is mature, synoptic, careworn--light-years from the standard Hollywood movie. The closest we can get to pegging Syriana in a phrase: it's smart...
...course, you could envision a lot at this embryonic stage. "These are the first steps into new avenues," says Stephen McPherson, president of ABC Primetime Entertainment. "This is all a frontier for everybody." But whether the big new TV distribution medium ends up being iTunes or VOD or something else, the trend throughout entertainment is portability. Viewers can get pared-down mini-episodes of shows, including Desperate Housewives, on their cell phones through services including GoTV. Fox has created one-minute cell-phone offshoots of 24, and a mini-spin-off of Lost is forthcoming. Time Warner (TIME's parent...