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...full of inside jokes (the kingdom of Far Far Away is essentially Beverly Hills; the first villain was widely seen as a stand-in for then Disney chief Michael Eisner). Fairy-tale parodies are safe rebellions, spoofing formulas and feel-good endings while still providing the ride into the sunset that pays the bills. In Happily N'Ever After, a wizard runs a "Department of Fairy-tale-land Security," seeing to it that each story--Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, etc.--hews to the book. His bored apprentice Mambo articulates the strategy of his movie and its peers: "I just wish we could...
When Before Sunset, the romance she co-wrote, snagged an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2004, the French actress acquired a taste for the other side of filmmaking. First up is a comedy about a bickering couple's European vacation, starring Delpy (above right) and Adam Goldberg...
...Harvard, our resident would-be Cassandra, Mark A. Adomanis ’07, tirelessly propounds this argument in articles such as “Sunset in the West,” “Twilight of the West,” and “The Coming Fall” (see a pattern?). The “demography is destiny” thesis combines two related arguments: Firstly, Europeans (meaning, inevitably, Christians) are committing collective suicide by not reproducing fast enough; secondly, Muslims are replacing these sterile sons of Europe. This argument isn’t solely the domain...
...Klein's"Making Bush Make aDeal" [April 30]: I have another idea for bringing the Iraq war to a close. Let's initiate a pay-as-you-go policy for the war instead of financing it with borrowed money. We could start with an early sunset on the big tax break that President George W. Bush gave to his wealthiest friends. Perhaps we would be more careful about rushing into war if we had to shoulder some of the financial burden instead of deferring it to our children and grandchildren...
...have any significant frustrations where I feel we’ve not been able to make progress on things that I hoped to do.”Even though he has maintained a low profile on campus and often leaves the office before sunset, colleagues say the interim president has lived up to his pledge of an “active year.” “It will go down as one of the most productive years in Harvard history,” Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, who worked...