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...Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), an Irish rocker. Layla’s overprotective father cuts short his daughter’s relationship and then tells her that her son, Rush, died at birth. That turns out to be a lie; Rush survives and is secretly given up to the state. Ten years later, after her father reveals the truth, Layla heads out to find Rush while Louis inexplicably heads back to New York to find Layla. Meanwhile, Rush (Freddie Highmore) hears music in the air and in his heart, and the sounds fill him with hope that his parents are still...

Author: By Kevin C. Ni, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: August Rush | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...joint strike between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) East and West (officially separate organizations that have agreed to negotiate together) took hold in early October. Anticipating the end of their contract at the beginning of November, the guilds agreed to vote on the strike. Nine out of ten writers voted in the affirmative. On Oct. 26, representatives of the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) presented the WGA with an offer consisting of, among other things, higher caps for employer contributions to pension and health funds. The WGA turned them down, and on the morning...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan and Katherine L. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: BOTH SIDES NOW | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...with their business aspirations. “It’s a very small portion of our actual alumni who are in business, around four percent,” says Joshua Z. Biber, TFA’s Boston director for new site development. Biber reports that before joining TFA, ten percent of corps members considered teaching after college. But two-thirds of corps members continue teaching following their two years in TFA, with one-third of alumni working in low-income communities.Still, Biber recognizes the importance of all career fields to the common goal of improving the country?...

Author: By D. PATRICK Knoth, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: You Can Go Home Again | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...curiosity, I ordered a free Bible online, registering as Kasha Tinkelvitz to avoid mailing lists. I did not realize Mormon missionaries would personally deliver and discuss their Bible with me, or my dog, as the case my be. “I’m sorry. Kasha is only ten and devoutly Jewish. She’s just curious. Please don’t take the trouble to come. She isn’t interested in being converted,” my mother said. She hadn’t lied to them. My dog is certainly ten and quite curious...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Unlikely Enlightenment | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...Ten to one, you think Australians are rather like Americans and that we want to be more so. Dead wrong. No idealism attended the birth of Anglo-Australia. White colonization in America began as a religious venture; the Puritans thought they were, literally, creating God's country. Australia, by contrast, began as the continent of sin, the dump for English criminals. Australians, unlike Americans, have never felt they had a mission or a message for a fallen world. There is no doctrine of Australian exceptionalism. If this deprived us of the heights of American moral expectation, it spared us from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Australia | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

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