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...with many challenges this season, aside from challenging strong competition. Last weekend’s event brought on punishing weather, and this weekend brought more trouble, as the Alpine and nordic teams were forceably split from each other. The Alpine team remained in the championship’s usual location at the Middlebury Snow Bowl and the nordic team traveled to Craftsbury, Vt., to compete at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center. “It definitely detracted from the happenings that usually occur at the Middlebury Carnival,” senior Susannah Dickerson said. Neither team appeared to be bothered...
...FILMS BY LOUIS MALLE A sort offoster brother of the New Wave directors, Malle is matched only by Franois Truffaut as a memorializer of youth in all its enthralling achiness. This Criterion Collection package brings together (with the usual fabulous extras) three mini-masterpieces: the 1971 Murmur of the Heart, the 1974 Lacombe Lucien and the 1987 Au Revoir les Enfants (below). Sexuality, fascism and racism are the respective issues addressed, but it's the mood that sticks with you: a wise, indulgent longing that is immediately French, indelibly universal...
...stolen, and if you've stolen a lot of it, your problems multiply. More people know there is hot money or goods around, so security is compromised, and that gives fences the chance to demand a larger cut for laundering cash. Then the authorities offer a bigger than usual reward--in the Securitas case, $3.5 million, enough to turn the heads of many villains, or villains' wives. Most dangerously, you have to physically shift the stolen goods--and the Tonbridge robbers had a lot of baggage to haul around. "If you have 40 million in 50 notes," says...
...another act of terrorism by Sunni insurgents, Iraqi Shiites, and the global Islamic community, need to wage a new type of war, one in which suicide bombs and death threats are conspicuously absent: a civil war of words. Wordplay aside, such a campaign would be targeted not at the usual suspects of America and the West, but at the internal evil that has given Islam such a bad name. Once again, Jihad Momani, addressing his Muslim brothers, articulates this sentiment in the clearest fashion: “Who harms Islam more? This European guy who paints Muhammad or the real...
Before trailing outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers last Wednesday to his Dunster House pep rally—checking Harvard IDs and providing tighter security than at a rock concert—it was just business as usual for Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) this past week...