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...light goes on in a Harvard office building as a young man drives to work in his sports utility vehicle and a woman bites into her morning eggs and bacon. Across the world, villagers in a small town are hit by a hurricane of unusually high intensity—a storm that they were not expecting. The connection between these two groups of events may seem tenuous at first, but in our globalized age, the actions we take at Harvard can have direct effects around the planet. Many of our everyday habits—from charging our laptops and cell...
...across the country to live under the same roof. But it is in Silver’s troubled yet intruiging new novel, “The God of War,” that she takes the greatest risks, stepping back in time and place to a rural Southern California town in 1978 where military planes and water pollution punctuate the arid desert landscape. Tracing a few months in the life of 12-year-old Ares Ramirez, who lives with his mother and his mentally disabled younger brother Malcolm in a trailer home by the sea, the story...
...structured the film to resemble the city itself. Bethel notes that just as Atlanta is an eclectic town with little sense of community, so too the vignettes within the film are essentially unrelated, despite being set against the same geographical backdrop. The dynamism of the city also determined the way in which they filmed “Terminus.” Mayer advised Bethel, who also acted as camera operator, not to use shot lists, but instead to have a more improvisational approach...
...home the message that McCain, who spends much of his time these days trying to raise money at hotel ballroom fund raisers, understands the concerns and plight of all Americans. "As President of the United States, I am not going to leave anybody behind," he said Thursday at a town hall in New Orleans, echoing the "No Child Left Behind" slogan of President Bush...
...even if Mehsud can turn off attacks in Waziristan, there's no evidence he can control militants elsewhere in Pakistan. Today a car bomb at a police station in the town of Mardan in the northwest killed four and injured 30. Militants there say the blast was in revenge for the death of a rebel leader who was killed by police three weeks ago, but insist that the cease-fire is still in effect. "We abide by our announcement of a cease-fire. Today's attack was to level the score with police," Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar told...