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...tree falls in the forest and if you don’t see it, it’s not happening,” Luciana Herman, a resident tutor in Quincy House, says about the attitude toward drug enforcement prior to the shooting. “There was a passive disinterest...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: A Silent Aftermath | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...murder that took place in and around Santa Teresa between 1993 and 1997. The narrative, based on the actual unsolved murders in Juárez known as the feminicidos that continue to this day, mirrors the structure of “The Savage Detectives” in their ephemeral disinterest. Detectives, bodyguards, politicians, and prophets float to the surface and sink back again into an ocean of brutality, where a phantom mental patient desecrates churches and young girls are swallowed whole by unmarked cars in the Mexican night. With its medically precise descriptions of the symptoms and scenery of murder...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Topography of Hell: Roberto Bolaño’s ‘2666’ | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...plot’s implications become exceedingly confusing, as the viewer simply cannot reconcile Brawne’s excessive declarations of love—at one point she compares her feelings when she is not with Keats to suffocation—with the poet’s apparent disinterest. Does Keats simply not feel the same way as Brawne? Does the poet’s loyalty or fiscal obligation to Brown simply supersede his love? Sadly, this confusion seems entirely unintentional.The film’s finale only exacerbates these narrative faults. After falling ill, Keats is instructed to leave...

Author: By Bram A. Strochlic, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bright Star | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...Even so, the French media worked themselves into a lather in July when one woman demanded the right to swim in a burqini - a one-piece that resembles a wet suit - in a public pool that denied her entrance. Given that, it's little wonder that the approval - or disinterest - that the French public has shown the Zakia Halal ads has been a source of contentment and relief to many French Muslims. (Read "Halal: Buying Muslim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halal Ads Hit French TV | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...Sing Tommorow’s Praise” showcases their shoegaze influences, creating a dense wall of sound rather than an delicate melody, while the volume fluctuations of “Sunshower” allow it to be pretty without being irritating. The band’s disinterest with variety on the rest of the album is nothing short of frustrating. Someone felt the need to include “Risky and Pretty,” the album’s 45-second interlude, as a purely instrumental track with more of the same boring sounds, adding another useless track...

Author: By Brianne Corcoran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Asobi Seksu | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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