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...conflicting loyalties and complicated relationships among native Americans and Mexicans in the borderlands: "Having made peace with an Apache band, it was not uncommon for a Mexican village to undertake a thriving trade with their new associates in goods seized from other settlements. '[W]hat was stolen from one Mexican found ready sale to another,' noted an observer, 'the plunder from Senora finding its way into the hands of the settlers of Chihuahua, or... selling without trouble to the Mexicans living along the Rio Grande...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Massacre Explained | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...Strategic Perception, in sinful Hollywood. But he's had to pay a price for it all. The neighbors haven't exactly been friendly. Every day for about six months, he put a "John McCain for President" sign in front of his home. And almost every night it would be stolen. "I wanted to leave a note there and say, 'You idiots don't get it. I have an unlimited supply,' " Davis says, still laughing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Anti-Obama Campaign That Didn't Happen | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...early voting trends - and echoing the routine accusations of "irregularities" that arise during any internal PS polling - Valls repeatedly spoke of "cheating" before making the comment that has many observers now calling the Socialists' central Paris headquarters "la Floride-sur-Seine." "We won't allow victory to be stolen," Valls pledged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Segolene Royal Loses Bid for Top Party Post | 11/22/2008 | See Source »

...given equal opportunities for success, and that they should jump at those opportunities when they presented themselves. We forget that ultimately even Douglass concludes that “properly speaking, there are in the world no such men as self-made men...We have all either begged, borrowed, or stolen.” —Reviewer Anjali Motgi can be reached at amotgi@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Outliers' Doesn't Succeed | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...suddenly flings himself into the apartment. Through the cold heat of silence, these two strangers embrace on a lonely mattress. In the morning, the two lovers glide through the city lip-locked, ordering chicken and blueberry muffins for breakfast. In the last shot, a tow truck carrying the stolen car glides past them in the street. All this culminates under the lull of John Lurie’s syncopated voice.This is the premise of “Keep It For Yourself,” a stunning film by French director Claire Denis. Originally made as an extended commercial...

Author: By Mia P. Walker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: French Filmmaker Denis Gets Frank | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

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