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...Waltz steps out of animation, using TV news footage to show the carnage of Sabra and Shatila. "I didn't want people to walk out thinking this was just another cool anti-war movie," says Folman. "I wanted to remind them that this horrible event really happened, and we Israelis were a part of it." After seeing his film, nobody is going to forget...
...special event, titled “Frank Kramer—A Celebration” was recently held in his honor. Area residents gathered at the Harvard Book Store to hear local authors speak glowingly of him and his work. Bernays, an author who spoke at the commemoration, says that the event was “remarkable” and praised the now-retired bookseller...
...Hais compound, the dancers withdraw, and it's time for the main event. A portable dais is hauled into a corner of the quadrangle, and a series of sheiks troop up to it and make brief speeches. Their political inexperience is revealed by their language, which is absurdly over the top. Opponents of the SOFA are denounced as "enemies of Iraq" and "antinationals." There are ad hominem attacks on some of the politicians opposed to the agreement. The IIP is not mentioned by name, but nobody here is in any doubt that most of the vitriol is aimed...
...Since that year, though, there has apparently been exactly one stimulating pre-Game corroboree, which came in 2005. The Crimson recap quotes football coach Tim Murphy as stunned that disinterested undergraduates had thrown together the event, and generally conveys a confused introduction to school spirit in all its Caligulan, stuffed-bulldog-shredding fervor. Justin H. Haan ’05, then fun czar, was triumphal, proclaiming his organization as “all about…reviving a Harvard tradition...
...continued speaking even when her microphone stopped amplifying her voice, saying, “We will not be silenced.” Many of the speakers at the rally were very hopeful in the change Obama’s administration may bring, with Ryan MacNeely, co-organizer of the event, expressing his view that gay marriage would be legal nationwide in two to four years. While gathered near Out of Town News in Harvard Square after the City Hall rally, Christopher M. Mason, co-organizer of the rally and member of the Cambridge GLBT commission, stirred up memories...