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...experience, he says, students are ambivalent about labor issues on campus, torn between general concern for workers and opposition to the PSLM living wage proposal...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Labor Reps Have Divergent Views | 5/18/2001 | See Source »

...help identify and reunite children with their families. This kit--the contents are on netaid.org--was constructed by the International Rescue Committee. It includes most things necessary to provide for the immediate needs of children separated from their families and begin reunification. The kits will be used in war-torn West Africa and East Timor. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The $111 Reunion | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...never seen anything like it. Directed by Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet), Moulin Rouge is a postmodern, absinthe-fueled journey through the titular Parisian nightclub at the birth of the 20th century, set to mid- and late-20th century pop songs. Kidman stars as Satine, the doomed, ambitious courtesan torn between a penniless writer (Ewan McGregor) and a sugar-daddy duke (Richard Roxburgh). "She sings, she dances, she dies, she's funny," says Luhrmann. "You can't get more tested than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Madame Moulin | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...that was left were patches of yellowed grass where the tents had been and a heap of trash, including the torn-down facade of “Tent City Hall,” where notices had been posted for the camp-out community. Parked outside Mass. Hall was a truck from the A.M.-P.M. Cleaning Corporation. Vacuums whirred inside the building...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Breaking Camp, Tent City Residents Head Home | 5/11/2001 | See Source »

...famous burlesque house's star performer, whose charms simultaneously catch the eye of a poor, impetuous poet (Ewan McGregor) and a wealthy, bombastic impresario (Jim Broadbent). With the former promising romance and the latter offering a chance at international stardom, the "hooker with a heart of gold" is torn between the two, and inevitable chaos ensues. Grand musical numbers and sumptuous period costumes give director Baz Luhrman an excuse to work his intensely visual style; his richly textured and lavishly orchestrated compositions are bound to captivate, as they did in Romeo + Juliet. If Luhrman has learned anything since then...

Author: By Stanley P. Chang, James Crawford, Yan Fang, Andrew D. Goulet, and Michelle Kung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Summer Movie Preview | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

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