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...technique of "draining the pond" must be applied by the Italian government: organized fan clubs that are violent must be disbanded, rowdy fans must know that any involvement in these incidents is a ticket to a long-term stadium ban, and the majority of good-natured fans should understand that the "nuclear option" of having games take place behind closed doors is very much on the table. That was the message on Sunday afternoon from Marisa Grasso, the widow of Raciti, the officer killed in Catania earlier this year. "My husband's death posed a basic question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Italian Soccer Fan's Death | 11/12/2007 | See Source »

...divisive, controversial war. "They deserve this recognition," he said, "and their families deserve it. As of yesterday we had every single flag out. That anyone could do this," Enders gestured toward the damaged flags, "and call themselves Americans? I assume they were kids, and they need to understand that these men and women have given their lives so that others can stay home and enjoy college or high school without fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Veterans' Day Vandals Touch a Nerve | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

...Lions for Lambs” is one of those films that leaves you thinking, “What the heck?” Not in a cool, “Donnie Darko”-esque, “I-don’t-understand-what-I-just-saw-but-I-like-it” type of way, but in a “I-can’t-believe-I-just-wasted-ninety-minutes-of-my-life-watching-this-useless-piece-of-animal-feces” type of way. Nothing, not even Meryl Streep’s acting, saves...

Author: By Andres A. Arguello, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lions for Lambs | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...arrangements initiated at Versailles in 1919, we will find the roots of the conflicts which torment the international community nearly a century later. Most importantly, Andelman contends that the Treaty’s oversight of a number of issues in the Middle East—namely their failure to understand the entrenched antagonisms between Shi’ites and Sunni and between Bedouin Arabs and Palestinians—has contributed to the modern-day plagues of terrorism and conflicts ranging from the Iranian Revolution to the Iraq war. But accounts like Andelman’s lead one to wonder...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nothing Earth-'Shattering' | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...contemporary art from MoMA and they would look at these paintings and say, ‘This is not my idea of contemporary Chinese art.’ You could take another curator from another museum, and they might looks at this and say, ‘Yes, I understand what this is. I understand the tradition this is coming out of.’” At an opening held last Friday night at the Sackler, co-curator Claudia Brown said of the exhibition, “It restores a degree of harmony to cultural tradition...

Author: By Lee ann W. Custer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Painting China | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

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