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...their abandoned sons. The need for parental closure drove the characters played by Bill Murray in Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers (which took the runner-up Grand Prix), Sam Shepard in Wim Wenders' Don't Come Knocking, and William Hurt in James Marsh's The King. A similar theme, of past sins haunting and tainting the present, was the preoccupation of several other biggies: ancient murders in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence, boyhood betrayal in Michael Haneke's Hidden, slavery in the American South in Lars Von Trier's Manderlay. The Grand Palais screen was streaked with guilty...
DODSWORTH 1936; WILLIAM WYLER...
...liberal-arts menu would be more to their taste. The plebes going through Beast in the summer of 2001 were tough: only 41 members quit, the second lowest dropout level in 15 years. They would need to be, since the new superintendent who took command that July, Lieut. General William Lennox, was looking to sharpen the standards. "We had to tighten things up a bit," he says, "give more of the sense of what life is like in the Army." The changes were necessary because sometimes "you can lose focus when...
Finally, let me say thanks for reading these columns. Writing them has been among the most challenging and rewarding experiences of my life. My favorite columnist, William Safire, once wrote that his job was “never to assume that the obvious is true.” Your e-mails have taught me never to assume that idealism is lost...
...level of investment that it will take to increase the number of women scientists and women engineers is surely many times this, but this is a very powerful first statement,” said Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, who chairs the Faculty Council, the 18-member governing board of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...