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...Seraphim Falls has one of those, too. There must be some reason why, in the winter snows of the West's high country, a band of marauders, led by Carver (Liam Neeson), is expending such implacable efforts to wipe out Gideon (Pierce Brosnan). By the time the chase has descended to the desert's burning sands, we learn that the latter was a once-peaceful farmer whose family was wiped out by Civil War irregulars led by Neeson (shades of the much better outlaw Josie Wales). Gideon will have his vengeance if possible, Carver will defend himself by relentlessly attacking...
...Common grackles, as they are known, are just that - common, especially in the fall and winter when southern birds move into the urban areas and northern birds fly south in great flocks of thousands. Google "grackle" and you will find birding sites that describe them as "opportunistic foragers" and "boisterous and abundant." For every rhapsodic bird lover, there is someone like director Michael Berry, whose successful short film Day of the Grackle, depicts one man's war with a grackle from hell...
...cold, gray winter sky sags low over northern French town of Hem - a little over five miles east of the bustling city of Lille, but on a different socio-economic planet. While Lille's jobless rate of 10% is above the national average of 8.6% (in large part due to its sizeable university population), more than one in four of Hem's nearly 20,000 residents is out of work. Most of those live in the Hauts Champs/Longchamp neighborhood, a cluster of housing projects that crowds more than half of the town's residents into just...
...planning vacations and gloating to unlucky roommates with dreaded Monday and Tuesday exams. But a fortunate few have been laughing for some time now—students who, through a combination of term papers and December exams, have gone through January fully final-free. Thanks to serendipitous scheduling last winter, Amy C. Stebbins ’07, a History and Literature concentrator, finished all five of her courses without sitting for a single final exam, ending up with perhaps the longest intersession of any student. The combination of her arts, humanities, and language courses—and the fact that...
...with a simple directness. His call to arms against the plight of the homeless in the bitter winter of 1954, after a woman froze to death in Paris with her eviction notice in hand, remains one of the most broadly cited expressions of human compassion in the French language. Once he became famous, he was happy to embarrass those who honored him into taking real action. In 1992 he was named a Grand Officer in the French Legion of Honor, but refused to wear the insignia until the government found a humane solution for the plight of 300 African families...