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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...imagination. Therefore one of the film’s missteps is that it tries too hard to strike a balance between making the film a primer for fans new to Potter lore, yet simultaneously, assuming that its audience knows the complex history behind the characters. Aside from the prerequisite villain, the unpleasant characters that readers love to hate from the books don’t seem nearly as vile as they do in Rowling’s books. Both Harry’s arch-nemeses at Hogwarts, the spoiled Draco Malfoy and the leering Potions Professor Severus Snape, are given...

Author: By Michelle Kung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Do You Believe in Magic? | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

Though he is often remembered as the villain of 1969, students who were dragged from University Hall during the police bust are less critical of the late Harvard president in retrospect...

Author: By Robert M. Annis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Resenting the Act | 11/15/2001 | See Source »

...lonely if cynical rich kid who wants to be Clark's friend. One of the Tick's cronies is the randy, obnoxious Captain Liberty (Liz Vassey), a literally statuesque crime fighter who carries a torch and an attitude. We'll see if today's audience can handle a complex villain or a heroine who tweaks a star-spangled symbol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Super, Human Strength | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...Hollywood stereotypes of Arabs have not matured in the same way at all. An often cited example is Aladdin, in which Scott Weinger ’98 was the voice of Aladdin, the hero, while the arch-villain, Jafar, speaks with a (bad) Arab accent. It does not appear, though, that this bias is malicious—merely cultural. The Siege in 1998 was an eerie prediction of Arab-American internment after terrorist attacks in New York, and the film’s intent seemed to be to show that this was not a reasonable response to a terrorist attack...

Author: By Charles D. Cheever, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Native Americans and Native Palestinians | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...conversations everywhere. It is amazing indeed what people can now bring themselves to say without embarrassment: that our leaders are capable of acting with intelligence and rectitude; that the world would not be a better place if America left it alone; that it is impossible to convince a villain to do what is right; that some things really are worth sacrificing for, fighting for, dying for. Nor am I embarrassed to say this: there are certain rare moments when the world’s forces align in a stark opposition of good and evil, and the leaders of free lands...

Author: By Jason L. Steorts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Making Our Stand | 10/5/2001 | See Source »

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