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...September 13, 2006: Van Nuys, California A student is shot and killed in a crosswalk in front of a school. The incident is suspected to be gang related...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fatal Shootings at Colleges and Schools | 4/16/2007 | See Source »

...work as a photographer she shrewdly distributed to the large American museums that could be counted on to secure his reputation. But a sizable part of his art collection O'Keeffe deposited in a less predictable place. At the urging of a friend, the Harlem Renaissance writer Carl Van Vechten, she gave 97 works to Fisk University, the historically black school in Nashville. And she threw in a few of her own. One of those was Radiator Building-- Night, New York, 1927, a painting we now recognize as a key moment in her career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Impermanent Collection | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...prude, but when a pretty Jewish girl is steeling herself to seduce an SS commandant, I don’t need to see her give a quickie to a fellow resistance member after waxing her pubic hair. The private parts Verhoeven willingly parades around onscreen belong to Carice van Houten, who plays Rachel Steinn, alias Ellis de Vries, a dazzling on-the-lam Jew recruited to spy for the resistance. An able temptress and a contemplative soul, she adopts a dour disposition as willingly as she strips for her assigned Nazi boytoy Ludwig Müntze. Verhoeven, who co-wrote...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Black Book | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...concrete acts and proper nouns and verbs, or pages from an anatomy manual scattered like flower petals, chaotically linked.” In another particularly moving scene, “the mother of Mexican poetry” recalls seeing soldiers and tanks herding captive students and professors into a van “like something from a World War II movie.” Determined not to “let them write [her] into their script,” she locks herself in a bathroom stall with only a book of poetry to read and a roll of toilet...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wielding Knives and Words: For Bolaño, Both Cut Deep | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

MAGNUM P.I.'S FERRARI 308 AND THE A-TEAM'S GMC VAN Their glory days as mustache-delivery system and crack-commando conveyance behind them, these '80s alpha sleds now gather dust on the Universal Studios back lot, posing for tourist photos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 23, 2007 | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

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