Word: william
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Friends, colleagues, students and well-wishers gathered Saturday afternoon for a memorial poetry reading to honor William Alfred, Lowell professor of the humanities emeritus, who died last...
...magnificent," said William Wertenbaker '59. "It was William Alfred...
...Reported by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles and William Tynan/New York
...around the Los Angeles area and relax by his backyard pool during the day. Andrea Shalal-Esa, the night reporter for the Washington bureau of Reuters news agency, likes working from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. because it allows her to be a daytime mom to her two children. William Cockshoot, a Chicago commodities trader, finds he is better able to catch a price spread at night that would be snapped up faster by competitors during the day. The corporate investigators who work for International Business Research of Princeton, N.J., a firm that guards against computer hackers, can work...
...these performers, however, manage to make their roles their own. Except Claire Danes, who in the title role is nothing short of a great detriment to the film. Even if the viewer does not recognize her as Angela from "My So-Called Life" or Juliet from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, her voice is absolutely grating. Princess Mononoke is a poor translation of Mononoke Hime, which more literally means "Spirit/Monster/Ghost Princess"--there is nothing remotely spiritual, monstrous or ghostly about Danes' Princess Mononoke. While her behavior and lines present Princess Mononoke as a tough, dangerous, furious woman, she sounds...