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...powerful, resonant story, and even though Bobby has since moved to New York, I thought it would be a good idea for him to go back to Baghdad to write a sequel around the fifth anniversary of the war. I didn't have to press him, because he'll tell anyone who asks that he misses Iraq. Having spent five years there, he's deeply invested in the future of that troubled nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Eyes and Ears | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...bloodshed. As Roberto Fontolan, the Vatican-savvy spokesman of the lay group Communion and Liberation, puts it, "Let's not talk about dogma. Or whether my God is better than your God. Let's talk about reason that we both have as a gift from God. What does it tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The American Pope | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...sometimes becomes preachy about the broader ideas of greed and loses focus of personal goals, a divergence that feels out of place when the rest of the film glamorizes the Vegas lifestyle.At the beginning of the movie, a Harvard admissions officer asks, “What can you tell me that’s going to dazzle me?” Ben responds with his story of enormous gain and loss in Vegas, but Luketic’s direction fails to answer this question in a meaningful way. But if one doesn’t need to be dazzled...

Author: By Ali R. Leskowitz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 21 | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...Nicholas J. Shearer ’09, the project’s video engineer, says. “We aren’t about the technology behind it, as cool as it is. We really are not about style over substance here. We are very much about trying to tell a story...

Author: By Amanda C. Lynch, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Accessible 'Faust' Logs In | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...song. Many of the tracks gradually escalate in intensity to the brink of self-destruction. Just when a song is about to devolve into apeshit hysterics, Bejar invariably rescues it, slowly luring the melodies back to something catchy. “I’m not the kind to tell you what is true and what is totally out of control,” he quips on “Foam Hands,” but his mastery of this musical détente proves that he very well could. It’s a remarkable play of tension...

Author: By Jessica R. Henderson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Destroyer | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

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