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...MAN’S LAND. Bosnian director Danis Tanovic’s debut film about the recent Balkan wars won Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards last year. With Rene Bitorajac and Branco Djuric as two enemy soldiers trapped in the same trench. Bosnian and French with English subtitles. Free admission, with an introduction by director Tanovic. Wednesday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy...
...statues point east, but the next war would come to Basra from the south, the scene of Iraq's humiliation in 1991, when U.S.-led forces drove the Iraqi military from Kuwait. A sand barrier and trench constructed by Kuwait after the Gulf War to prevent infiltrators from crossing over now separates Iraq from Kuwait, and beyond it are the massing ranks of the invasion force. As he peers into the distance in the midday haze, vegetable farmer Shadat Dafeh Hamed mumbles, "I can't see them, but I know they are there." Hamed, 70, lives closer to the enemy...
...where Burberry is. Its new stores do a superb job of projecting and updating the brand's stuffy British heritage. Burberry's East 57th Street outlet in New York City is an ebony-and-white-oak fortress as well as a cool place to shop. Its made-to-order trench coats--ranging in price from $800 to $2,155--are offset by less expensive offerings such as swimsuits and belts...
...send anything special that you want to keep forever, First Sergeant Robert Wilson advises at a meeting Wednesday night. He explains that before his unit went into action in Desert Storm, the soldiers bulldozed an eight-foot trench in the sand, tossed in every piece of personal gear they owned and set it on fire. That way captured soldiers would not have family photos or letters that could be used against them by interrogators--and it also insured that any space in their vehicles that could hold water, ammo or food would not be wasted on a Walkman...
...more than Versace to change the way women dress - recently retired. Might not a retrospective have been in order? The most likely explanation for the V&A show is that Versace's shimmering, flamboyant designs are guaranteed crowd pleasers in a way that Saint Laurent's tuxedos and trench coats are not. The exhibition, which opened last week, makes note of Versace's under-appreciated tailoring skills, but places greater emphasis on the flash and glamour that the house has come to represent. The fact that the women Versace was most famous for dressing were British also helps explain...