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...small Christian sect has about 30,000 to 50,000 followers worldwide, according to Buteux. While they believe that any religion can bring salvation, rigorous intellectual analysis of the Scripture is at the core of their practice...
...bombing campaign to dislodge the regime; the slow breakup of the Gulf War coalition as much of Europe and the Arab world found itself at odds with the U.S. and Britain over long-term sanctions; the emergence in the second Bush administration of a determined and increasingly influential core of activist conservative foreign policy ideologues promoting a doctrine of unabashed American empire, advocating the preemptive projection of power to prevent the emergence of any military challenges to American dominance; the September 11 attacks and the way they fundamentally changed the terms of political discussion in America; the successful ouster...
...recent screening of the film at the Harvard Film Archive, over fifty percent of the audience quietly left the theatre near the half-way mark, during a 10-minute rape sequence that forms the core of the film. Told in a reverse narrative a la Memento, Irreversible follows Marcus (Vincent Cassel) and his friend Pierre (Albert Dupontel) as they search a bizarrely hostile gay club for the man who raped Marcus’s girlfriend Alex (Monica Bellucci). After the incredible revenge is taken, Noe backs up to depict the rape, and the final sequence of the film...
ADAPTATION. At its core, Adaptation is an analysis of the intellectual diseases that plague every writer, from editorial pressure to sibling rivalry to unrequited love. But its narrative edges make it a unique experience. Nicolas Cage plays writer Charlie Kaufman (the real-life writer of the film), who becomes consumed by his assignment to adapt Susan Orlean’s meditative nonfiction novel The Orchid Thief and his own personal eccentricities. Like Kaufman and director Spike Jonze’s previous film Being John Malkovich, several plots overlap and intertwine with surprising at dramatic twists, creating a frustrating, complex film...
...anything: University President Lawrence H. Summers once complained to Newsweek that Harvard was incapable of ordering blackboard erasers in quantities greater than six without a faculty committee. Every year, University Hall has to browbeat delinquent departments to get their course descriptions in for the course catalogue. When the Core Curriculum was instituted in the late 1970s, each Core area was supposed to offer 10 courses every semester (in 1997 that number was raised to 12). But some areas of the Core, like Moral Reasoning, have rarely met those numbers, because the Core office just can’t get enough...