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...expected committees, studies, inclusion of students, clinical instructors and alumni/ae, and slow careful thought...not a sudden hacking of one piece,” she wrote in an e-mail...
...Iraq. As we left, one ambassador remarked to another that the U.S.-inspired elections might lead to the Shi'as achieving a dream they have held since the 7th century. But having resisted Shi'ite domination for almost 14 centuries, the Sunnis are unlikely to acquiesce quickly. Sudden democratic rule in the Middle East may not necessarily enhance American interests...
Lest the audience seek any respite in the comfort of the everyday world, the setting of Dido, Queen of Carthage looks and feels as dark and cold as outer space. When in one scene Dido, Aeneas, and their courtiers go hunting, the sudden appearance of staged “daylight” is beautifully painful, revealing vulnerable men and women so damaged by reality that they seem more at home in the gold-and-black no-place of the remaining scenes...
...Blanchett, lay in Kapur's slightly demented reinvention of period drama. "Elizabeth could have been incredibly musty," she says, "but Shekhar brought this East-West sensibility to it. The dancing. The way he moved from point to point in the plot, with no logic. His willingness to make big, sudden changes. He was completely and utterly unusual, and deeply unafraid." Critics wondered at the ahistorical sumptuousness of the movie and whether the director had gotten a little carried away with his new studio money. Janet Maslin of the New York Times wrote that Kapur and his screenwriter had made "spectacle...
...first goal in the third period, ending over 48 minutes of scoreless hockey at Messa Rink in Schenectady, N.Y., it seemed reasonably certain that top-seeded Harvard would squeak by rival Yale and move into the finals of the ECAC Tournament. When she scored for the second time, in sudden-death overtime, there was no doubt, and the Crimson (23-6-3) escaped with...