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...Walk the Line” is a “Ray”-caliber biopic. Unlike “Ray,” however, it makes no attempt to cast Cash as a legend in the making, choosing instead to focus on his humanity. Nothing is overdramatized, a wise choice when dealing with a man with a voice like sandpaper who sang for “good Christian folk” and inmates alike. It is this same popular appeal of Cash’s which makes the film appropriate for a wide variety of audiences. Whether you grew...
...children's eerily perfect execution of their routine creates an impressive performance. They have clearly spent a long time rehearsing. Stranger, perhaps, is hearing the show's utopian themes echoed in conversations with ordinary North Koreans. ?Thanks to the wise guidance of the Great Leader, life has improved so much,? one earnest soldier tells us as our minder looks on. ?The army and the people are all aroused in the great struggle for a prosperous country...
...grimy dishdasha. "I am a teacher! I am a teacher!" he protests as the Marines march him out into the courtyard, bind his hands with plastic ties and blindfold him. The Marines order his four young sons to kneel and face the wall as punishment for cracking wise when the troops entered the house. As Saleh is bundled into a waiting truck and taken to a detention facility, Lance Corporal John Hammar, 20, spots the man's daughter in tears and sighs in frustration. "Little kids are crying," he says...
...People come for a whole lot of different reasons—as a joke, pretending it’s a joke,” said Kristin E. Wheatley ’06, who helped organize the event. “But everyone gets something out of it, information-wise.” But information wasn’t the only thing students left the seminar with. Event staff members handed out hundreds of free condoms, dental dams, and packets of lubrication. At the end of the night, Airs gave out prizes, including vibrators, books of erotica, and a rubber duck...
Presented with the possibility, Kavulla said he thought a permanent organization is not necessary. He has repeatedly expressed frustration with groups who attack his magazine. “Instead of taking out their rage on The Salient, campus Muslims would be wise to focus their attentions on those places from whence their faith came,” he wrote in the Crimson editorial, “those places where what is called ‘moderate Islam’ is today besieged...