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...scenes are at once microscopic and cosmic in scope. They are wrought with interpretative possibilities that give them a remarkable freshness in each viewing, while also possessing subtlety and nuance that builds on itself with time...
Crafty production companies get around Harvard’s restrictions by filming from Harvard Square, so viewers can see the perimeter of the Yard framed by wrought-iron bars. Sometimes they scurry outside the Ivy League. A popular Harvard lookalike is Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. Both Soul Man, the story of a first-year Harvard Law School student desperate to secure a scholarship for black students, and the yet-to-be-released Prozac Nation were partly filmed there. With Honors was filmed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the Boston Athenaeum. Legally Blonde, starring Reese...
...Dennis Bock's well-wrought first novel The Ash Garden (Knopf; 281 pages) cuts through the moral debates surrounding the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and paints a humane, detailed tableau of its fallout on both its American creators and those whom it was sent to destroy. Setting fictional characters against a historical landscape, the Canadian author traces the life of Anton B?ll, a German scientist who was a star of the Manhattan Project, as his journey entwines with that of Emiko Amai, a little girl from Hiroshima who lost her face to the world's first atomic...
...criticism deserves rebuke. I am no fan of rap music, yet one wonders if West were cutting a CD on classical music whether he would be criticized or praised. As for assisting in a prospective presidential bid by Sharpton, surely the First Amendment does not end at the iron-wrought gates of Harvard. Sharpton has his political and personal agenda as does every political candidate. Most will not take him seriously as a presidential candidate should he run. Yet he has a right to petition the American people. West is a great scholar and a credit to Harvard. It would...
...shift the blame. The Hazara's troubles and the destruction of the Buddhas were the work of Pakistanis and Arabs, the foreign jihadis, says one prisoner, Nisar Ahmad. "It was a very,very bad idea," he says. "We are very sad." The war may be over, but the destruction wrought by the Taliban, like Khan's razing of Shahr-i-Gholghola, seems destined to live in the Hazara's memories for centuries to come...