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...your shrink, might be a deal. Or, you could jump on the bandwagon and take QR 34, “Counting People: Demography and Human Affairs,” a massively popular QR. It’s a class on demography—on birth rates and mortality rates. (Viva Professor Peter T. Ellison, death to snotty TFs 1 through 6). Ellison walks you through Excel, making the twenty-page country reports manageable, and he drops the lowest of your three quiz grades. But it doesn’t really matter when your TF manages to mark everyone down...
...vivid tough guys (Howard Da Silva and Charles McGraw as a rancher and his enforcer) and gals (Lynn Whitney as McGraw's surly wife). The movie also has style to spare, especially in the pearly flashes of white amid the dark skies and darker hills. Somebody had seen Que Viva Mexico, Sergei Eisenstein's 1932 paean to peons. We'll tell you who that somebody was in a minute...
...made a documentary, Viva Zapatero!. (The title exalts "And down with Berlusconi!") In this brisk blast of agitprop, Guzzanti, a handsome, passionate defender of her right to say what she wants, summarizes her case, quotes from attacks on her ("Madwoman"; "Tale Your Money and Shut Up") in Berlusconi-owned newspapers and ambushes politicians from Center-Left and Center-Right, who either supported Berlusconi or wouldn?t fight him. (Her father, one of her victims reminds her, is a Center-Right official. She replies, "I?m a grownup. I don?t have to ask permission...
...Viva Zapatero!, which won a 15-20 min. ovation at last year?s Venice Film Festival, was Guzzanti?s immediate revenge on Berlusconi. Her ultimate revenge came this week, when the mogul-politico finally acknowledged the defeat he suffered in last month?s election...
...NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” as the sole anchor since MacNeil’s retirement in 1995. Lehrer has also been a prolific writer, publishing three plays and two memoirs as well as 15 novels, the first of which was turned into a film, “Viva Max!” in 1969. “Jim Lehrer is a familiar face to all have watched the presidential debates in the last few elections,” said Michael Thakur ’01, head class marshal of the Harvard Law School class...