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...rustling skirts and gleaming chandeliers, however, can’t hide the truth—“The Duchess” is smoke, mirrors and frequently-insubstantial pageantry. “The Duchess” isn’t meant to be a groundbreaking movie by any stretch of the imagination. Its aim is to entertain rather than to educate. But gorgeous dresses and champagne can’t mask the fact that stale dialogue and flat storylines will ruin a movie, whatever its aim may be. Director Dibb’s offering isn’t terrible?...
...said Christo, referring to the media attention and iconic identity that the projects gained from each prolonged effort to obtain approval. Christo and Jeanne-Claude are currently working on a project entitled “Over The River”—a six-mile-long stretch of fabric panels suspended over the Arkansas River. It is expected to be completed in the summer of 2012, pending the success of their proven negotiation methods. —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...
Hagel, Chuck • says of Palin, "I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president of the United States" •says of Palin's shills, "I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, 'I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia.' That kind of thing is insulting to the American people...
...Vermont, respectively. The Crimson quickly demonstrated its desire to take the game to the Rams, albeit a tad bit anxiously—Harvard drew three offsides calls in the first fifteen minutes. “Coach wanted us to start off by trying to get in behind them and stretch the defense,” junior forward Andre Akpan said. “But they had eight or nine players back and it wasn’t a very big field, it was very difficult to find spaces.URI’s defensive formation forced Harvard head coach Jamie Clark...
...nationalist, he failed to see the roots of Bolshevik violence in the repressive habits of his beloved prelapsarian Romanov Russia. And his smarmy coziness with Putin, an autocrat for whom he had nothing but praise, belies his fidelity to the cause of a free society. It is hardly a stretch to link the current turmoil in Georgian separatist regions with Solzhenitsyn’s nefarious fantasy of pan-Slavic nationhood. Any honest obituary of Alexander Solzhenitsyn must take into account his shelf-life as a writer and his severe failures as a political visionary. For genuine liberal critiques of totalitarian...