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...original City Council proposal, introduced by former Councillor Walter J. Sullivan, urged the body to ban trick or treating. The remaining eight council members, however, did not vote to pass the resolution until it was scaled back to just encourage “parents to closely supervise their children.” The Boston City Council had passed a similar resolution earlier that week...

Author: By Nicole G. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge City Council Feared Trick-Filled Treats | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...Walesa’s cousin, Walter S. Brolewicz, who lives in New Jersey, was in Poland during the correspondence...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Walesa Forced To Drop Harvard Invite | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...denied the Palme d'Or many expected, but Benicio del Toro, the film's indefatigable star, was named Best Actor. The Best Actress award went to Sandra Corveloni, who played the pregnant single mother trying to keep her poor family together in the Brazilian Linha de Passe, directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thompson. At the ceremony, Thompson revealed that Corveloni was herself pregnant and had just lost the child. She said the award would be balm to the actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And At Cannes, the Winner Is... | 5/25/2008 | See Source »

Surviving Adolescence Two of the strongest, most poignant films at Cannes deal with young people trying to navigate the labyrinth of adolescence. In most serious international films, especially those from Brazil (Pixote, City of God), the route leads to violence and early death. Linha de Passe, directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomspon, renounces the lure of melodrama for a neorealistic study of four sons of a single mother in Sao Paolo. Their have ordinary dreams - to become a football star, to become a religious leader, to be something more than a motorcycle courier, to drive a bus - but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Little Movies that Could | 5/24/2008 | See Source »

...While a collective conservative conversion to this pro-gay marriage position may seem far off, it may not be, given how recently gay issues have even entered the political agenda. In 1984, then-presidential hopeful Walter Mondale was said to be courting the “homosexual vote,” as though acknowledging gay Americans as a voting bloc was an innovative strategy. Furthermore, even Mondale, a Democrat, felt he had to straddle the line between opposing gay lifestyles and approving of them, telling his political allies, “The trick is to say you?...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Right, Where You Least Expect It | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

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