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Biographer Tad Szulc calls Cuban President Fidel Castro a "master at the game of letting his enemies trap themselves." And the aging dictator believes he has his archenemies, Miami's Cuban exiles, right where he wants them in the custody battle over six-year-old Elian Gonzalez. Ever since Elian was rescued from the Atlantic last Thanksgiving and handed to relatives in Miami--who refuse to send him back to his father in communist Cuba--the exiles have dared Castro to let the dad, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, come to Miami to get the boy himself. Their bet was that Castro...
...everything, even subatomic particles. If, on the other hand, the universe winds up cold and dark, life might hang on for a long time--say, by extracting gravitational energy from black holes. But trying to make a living once everything has subsided to pretty much the same temperature--a tad above absolute zero--is like trying to run a water mill on a dead-still pond...
...also involved in a far more worldly enterprise. Papal biographer Tad Szulc has said that the Pope's 91st international trip had three aims: personal spiritual enrichment; reconciliation among all three Abrahamaic faiths (Judaism, Christianity and Islam); and peacemaking, the duty of anyone who would call himself the vicar of Christ...
...because those living down at the River think the Quad is so far away, they are hesitant to visit, says Tad A. Fallows '02, who will be transferring from Cabot House to Quincy House next year...
Director Younger is only 27, and possibly just a tad retro. If he were really on cynicism's cutting edge, wouldn't Seth have a dotcom and be frantically kiting an IPO? Maybe not. Maybe that's the sequel. In the meantime, we have this curiously intense, alertly principled, refreshingly uncynical movie to savor...