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Starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley,Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai ,Vanessa Redgrave. Directed by Joe Wright. Opens...
...belching as a PG-13 rating will allow, and where the strangely Shrekish-looking Hrothgar staggers about drunkenly in a toga that is ever in danger of slipping off his mammoth body. It also takes a while to grow accustomed to the faces of Hrothgar, his wife Wealthow (Robin Wright Penn) and the oily counselor Unferth (John Malkovich). The faces have lines and creases, but they don't look lived in. This quibble subsides when Beowulf appears. The political drama of the palace is instantly amped up to mythical stature, and we can start appreciating the film for what...
...earlier collection of essays, “Brave Companions,” is hands-down one of the best books to pass time riding on the T.) Yale also boasts several playwrights who’ve won Pulitzers, including Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, and Doug Wright. Harvard winners include autobiographer Henry Adams class of 1858, novelist James R. Agee ’32, and poets ranging from Conrad P. Aiken ’12 to former U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz ’26. Harvard’s golden age of poetry has been lauded in numerous publications...
...League president during the 2005-2006 academic year, according to a survey of presidential salaries published this week by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Summers’ total compensation in the 2006 fiscal year was $611,226, higher only than the salary of Dartmouth’s James E. Wright. University spokesman John Longbrake declined to comment on current University President Drew G. Faust’s salary but noted that Harvard will next release compensation details in May. Richard C. Levin, the president of Yale, was the highest paid Ivy league chief in 2005-2006, earning...
...well as the John Hancock Center, above left, a squared-off, tapering tower, which wouldn't look out of place in Beijing. And architects don't just do buildings: for desktop tulips there's an elegant Frank Lloyd Wright vase in jade or nutmeg ($110). www.architecture.org...