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...that it matters. If al-Baghdadi does exist, and whether or not he is alive, he is a titular leader with no real power. His "promotion" last year was a PR exercise, designed to give al-Qaeda an Iraqi face - under the Jordanian al-Zarqawi, the group was dominated by foreign fighters. The publicity stunt failed, however. Although al-Qaeda nominally proclaims fealty to al-Baghdadi as the ruler of the "Islamic State," it is no secret that the group's real leader is al-Masri, an Egyptian...
...Absurdistan,” which was named one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times, Misha Vainberg, the 325-pound son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia, travels from his hometown of St. Leninsburg to New York and then to the titular country in search of his father’s love, a U.S. visa, excessive amounts of exotic food, and eventually, his own identity. After reading aloud an excerpt about Misha’s first trip to New York and circumcision, at age 18, in a seedy Brooklyn home surrounded...
...titular three lives of Lucie (Carolyn W. Holding ’10) are her life with her family, her life after banishment to a lonely cottage, and her afterlife. Moving back and forth through time, the play depicts Lucie’s birth in 1900 and childhood, during which she is tormented by her brother Henri (Chris R. Schleicher ’09) for being small and supposedly bringing bad luck to the family because of a birthmark. She grows up lonely, living with her brothers Henri and Edmond (Claudio Sopranzetti) after her parents and oldest brother...
...frontloaded the fun, partying a bit too hearty with the opening cuts. Any attempts at sentiment felt artificial. What a difference two years have made. Murphy’s always known how to build a song, but here, every track climbs slowly to its inevitable peak. When the two titular words of opener “Get Innocuous” make their sole appearance in the song, it’s an ineffably perfect capstone to seven minutes’ worth of laser-synth disco. Most surprising is Murphy’s lyrical depth. “Sound of Silver?...
...juxtaposed with comedy that sometimes works to raise the mood—but usually comes off as contrived. Each of the four adult children copes with the mother’s death differently, and the movie focuses on their interactions with each other as they make it through the titular two weeks. The eldest son, played by Ben Chaplan, is unable to cry for his mother. His performance is touching—that is, when one is not distracted by hints of a foreign accent and skin color that calls to mind a foreign exchange student amongst his freckle-faced...