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...teacher; my father is a small-business owner; a friend is a lawyer; my brother is a doctor. We are not even candidates to be the Person of the Year. The pool of choices should be limited to Presidents, generals, Prime Ministers and Popes. Names like Roosevelt, Truman, Elizabeth II, Hitler, Stalin and John Paul II should be succeeded by other similarly important and influential ones. We are simply people with jobs, families and ordinary lives. The Person of the Year should be extraordinary. TIME's choice was anything but. SCOTT FLATTO Brookline, Mass...
...unwritten rule: each president gets one foreign policy doctrine. James Monroe's was defense of the Americas. Harry S Truman's was containment. And George W. Bush's--spelled out after the defeat of the Taliban in 2002--was pre-emptive war to defeat terrorism and spread democracy...
...Scot M. Miller ’07, the awards just keep on coming. The Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator can now add the prestigious George J. Mitchell Scholarship to his growing resume, which already includes the Truman Scholarship and Udall Scholarship from earlier this year. The Mitchell Scholarship, sponsored by the US-Ireland Alliance, provides for 12 American citizens under 30 years old to study for a year in Ireland. Miller hopes this experience will allow him to pursue his environmental activism and studies from a different perspective. “I think Ireland is a really neat place...
...Sheehy when the Maysles brothers got to them a year later. By then, Albert and David had pretty much patented the branch of documentary known as showbiz v?rit?. Showman, a profile of movie distributor Joe Levine (1963), What's Happening: The Beatles in the U.S.A. (1964), A Visit With Truman Capote (1966), Meet Marlon Brando (1966) and the Rolling Stones' Altamont debacle Gimme Shelter (1970) all demonstrated v?rit?'s affinity for performers. A form of documentary that plants a two-person film crew (camera and sound) in a room with the subject, then waits for something to happen, v?rit?...
When Ed Harris, with backwards hat and glasses, walked into the room, I instantly thought of his role as Christof in “The Truman Show.” But I quickly shook off that impression. I wasn’t talking to Christof—I was talking to Beethoven. Harris plays the legendary composer in “Copying Beethoven,” a new film about the composer’s waning years of life and music. Last week, at a roundtable discussion with college journalists, Harris discussed his intense commitment to the role, some...