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What Eckert and Woodruff leave us with is an appropriate, salient message in this time of impending war. To paraphrase Ulysses’ intense iteration in the haunting final trio of the show, “For every Hero who comes home, a thousand more die in vain...
...only have those at Harvard exhibited a bias against pro-life groups, but the national media has as well. Last January over a hundred thousand people came from all parts of the United States to Washington, D.C. to support the dignity of mothers and unborn babies in the annual March for Life. In the news after the march, the media’s bias became apparent. “Pro-life” people were “anti-abortion” while the other side was graced with the comfortable “pro-choice...
...HAVEN—Continuing one of largest university labor stoppages in history, thousands of Yale’s unionized employees took to the streets yesterday for the second day. Buoyed by warmer weather, yesterday’s thousand-plus turnout on the picket lines was at least as large as Monday’s, according to students and union organizers...
Considering that the cable-TV industry is just emerging from an advertising slump and that only a few hundred thousand cable viewers tune in to HDTV, it's a risky bet. But it's the kind that Hendricks has always relished making. A laid-back, soft-spoken Southerner who first became interested in documentaries when ordering them for his professors at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, Hendricks "is a schoolteacher at heart," says John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, a principal shareholder of Discovery, along with Cox Communications and Advance/Newhouse Communications. "Like Ted Turner," Malone says, "Hendricks...
...thousand actors. Thirty-five rooms of The Hermitage museum. One single 95-minute, continuous, unedited, technologically and artistically miraculous Steady-Cam shot. And a mad genius for a director, bent on making—and remaking—Russian history. Were it not so exquisitely beautiful, Russian Ark, the latest film from Russian director Alexander Sokurov, might pale in comparison to the epic story of its own production...