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...love life—his fiancée Peggy (Alana C. Ju ’10)—and his passion for his demanding career, embodied by Burns.Halprin gives a strong performance, conveying this mental battle well. Throughout the play, Halprin persistently exudes the attitude of a torn man, rationalizing his coverage of the story to his wife but unable to answer her accusation that “It’s always a big story, the biggest story in the world and then the next day everybody’s forgotten it—even...
Part 4 (it's called "The Part About the Crimes," as if it were a Friends episode) consists of a ruthlessly precise forensic catalog of those killings, complete with torn nylons and vaginal swabs, along with the stories of the victims and the investigating detectives. It is a police procedural straight from the precinct of hell. It is also as bravura a display of novelistic mastery and as devastating a reading experience as you are likely ever to encounter. By the time Archimboldi does show up in Part 5, a belated Godot, we are very far past the possibility...
...brutal intrusion.Writer Simon Beaufoy turns the novel “Q and A” by Vikas Swarup into a structurally fascinating screenplay, but the film’s overarching influence seems to be Charles Dickens. Dickens’s London has given way to Mumbai, an overpopulated city torn between poverty and globalization. Jamal and Salim are a regular Oliver and Artful Dodger. They narrowly avoid danger at every turn and face down caricatured villains like Maman (Ankur Vikal), a creepy Michael Jackson look-alike who profits from the money his orphans bring in from the streets.The difference between...
Sinduhije, who is in his early 40s, had been praised for his conciliatory work in Burundi, which like neighboring Rwanda was torn by ethnic strife between Tutsi and Hutu. The fighting resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Burundians over several decades. A Tutsi himself, Sinduhije adopted a Hutu war orphan. The independent Radio Publique Africaine, which he founded in 2001, hired both Hutu and Tutsi ex-combatants as part of its effort to foster peace...
This year, the White House issued a statement to accompany the declaration of the date of Veterans’ Day: “From the fields and forests of war-torn Europe to the jungles of Southeast Asia, from the deserts of Iraq to the mountains of Afghanistan, brave patriots have protected our nation’s ideals, rescued millions from tyranny, and helped spread freedom around the globe.” This sentimental patriotism, while to some extent valuable, must be accompanied by an insightful, even-handed interrogation of our history...