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...Hare could be up for another Oscar nod this year for his latest screenplay, an adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel The Reader. The film, with Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, follows a German teenager's love affair with an older woman he later discovers was a Nazi concentration-camp guard. For Hare, it's both a meditation on truth and reconciliation, and an exploration of how ordinary Germans became complicit in Nazi horrors. The Reader revisits his signature subject: how personal responsibility meshes with historical events. And it underlines his role as modern theater's great connector, examining...
...other nine classes approved are entirely new. Department Chair of Linguistics Gennaro Chierchia, Philosophy Professor Bernhard Nickel, and Computer Science Professor Stuart M. Shieber will co-teach “Making Sense: Language, Thought, and Logic,” which will fulfill the Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning requirement...
...Bernhard Schlink's The Reader is one of those tricky novels that, based on the sober moral questions it poses and its close-to-elegant style, pretends to high literary seriousness while offering its readers - millions upon millions of them in the 37 countries where it has been translated - plenty of lubriciously rendered romps in the hay with a woman in her mid-30s and an eager young man in his mid-teens. Stephen Daldry's film, written by David Hare, is faithful both to the novel's plot and to its higher aspirations. This is not an entirely good...
...first victory with the Ferrari 125S. The car quickly earned its pedigree as the fastest there was, and it wasn't long before it went from the racetrack to roadways. By the 1980s, Ferrari had become the ultimate status symbol, drawing collectors as diverse as Prince Bernhard of Holland (who owned 14), Eric Clapton (8) and Ralph Lauren (13). In the past 10 years, the Ferrari has won more Formula One races than any other car?which has created record prices in recent sales. McQueen's 1963 Ferrari Berlinetta Lusso went for $2.31 million and James Coburn's 1961 Ferrari...
...Commerzbank's purchase of Dresdner is the best solution for (Germany's) financial industry," said Otto Bernhard, a Christian Democratic parliamentary deputy and finance policy expert...