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...actor and playwright in his youth, Pope John Paul II knows that the simplest gesture can move an audience. From a bold wave to his countrymen in communist Poland in 1979 to his quietly slipping a note in Jerusalem's Wailing Wall two decades later, this Pope has always found ways to keep the world watching. But last week it was John Paul, 81, who had to do the watching. Struggling with an arthritic right knee and symptoms of Parkinson's disease, the Pope for the first time in his pontificate stepped aside and let others lead several...
...world's hottest?and Hong Kong is Chinese cinema's incandescent crucible. The good news is that the festival was a smorgasbord of experimental work from China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea and the Philippines, much of it shot in video format, with an ultra-tight focus on youth and their contradictory (and sometimes tragic) need to belong in society and simultaneously forge individual identities. The unhappy news is that an overwhelming number of the films were more trial than triumph, explorations of anxiety, guilt and alienation that inspired in the viewer alienation and a recurring anxiety that something...
...factors driving China's recent ascendance. Japan's directors took dead aim at real-life subject matter, not shying away from the darker parts of society and keeping clear of any self-conscious Japan-o-philia. In a country where school bullying, teenage prostitution and youth crime increasingly make headlines, Japan's directors and writers certainly have stories to tell. (Not to mention a large captive audience: one thing disaffected teens still manage to do is go to the movies.) But they've also got a style that is frenetic, and ultimately commercial...
...Winthrop House residents who pick up packages and get busted for loud parties, security officer Enoch Kyerematen is known for providing superior service in a mostly sedentary job. In his youth, however, he earned considerable fame in his native Ghana due to his ability in the fast-paced game of table tennis, a game he still enjoys—and can dominate...
Second, this change encourages Cambridge’s youth to vote before they graduate from high school, and it will help to ensure that voting becomes a habit. As some councillors expressed when they made their decision, this change will mean that more young people will vote in local elections—a critical issue in a nation where less than 30 percent of 18-24-year-olds voted in the 2000 presidential election...