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...original 1977 Star Wars film, so many of the Cannes entries ended opaquely. Instead of a satisfied "Aha!", audiences were left muttering, "Huh?" In Hidden, a Parisian TV host (Daniel Auteuil), his elegant wife (Juliette Binoche) and attractive son are menaced when ominous videotapes and threatening messages drop through their mail slot. Auteuil's lingering unease over a vindictive act he committed as a boy leads him to suspect his old victim had a hand in the current mischief, but the perpetrator is not directly revealed. In A History of Violence, a mild-mannered guy named Tom (Viggo Mortensen...
...shadow of the Iraq invasion in April 2003, one of Beyer's two best friends arranged to drop out. Another ally, Lisa Huntington, also started the paperwork. Please, Beyer told her as Commitment Day approached, please don't leave me here alone. They talked, day after day. "I was either going to convince her to stay," Beyer says, "or convince myself to leave with her." On Aug. 17, 2003, in the cavernous Robinson Auditorium, Beyer and Huntington stood together among their classmates and took their oath. "We were bawling," Beyer says, "but we made it through...
...revisited the mental list of reasons to stay at West Point that she had made over the summer: 1) she had fought hard to leave Tucson and was too independent to drop out and move back in with her family, and 2) she had survived the worst part. By the third and fourth years, cadets can take some electives, like international relations and cultural anthropology. The subjects were getting more interesting, especially as the academy raced to meet new demands. Vincent Viola, a '77 West Point grad who on 9/11 was chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange, which stood...
...last West Point class to enter before 9/11, for a new kind of war. I was initially dubious. I knew little about West Point beyond the stereotype of an officer factory, minting the next generation of Army elites. I wondered whether West Point or the cadets themselves would drop their guard enough to let us see the more human mechanics behind their four-year march...
...Levitt’s most famous papers—on the link between legalized abortion and crime reduction—generated a torrent of indignant criticism that perhaps Summers would be familiar with. In the early 1980s, crime rates reached an all time high—and then dramatically dropped. One explanation for the drop, argues Levitt, is that the legalization of abortion in the 1970s kept a whole generation of unwanted babies from being born—babies who could have grown into a generation of street criminals 15 to 20 years later. Sounds like a pretty edgy hypothesis...