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There are times when history fails Bertolucci, imposing on his story Pu Yi's conscious collaboration with the Japanese -- a great black hole, morally and politically obscure, that threatens to swallow up the movie. Yet the director's eye remains preternaturally alert. He almost redeems the film's long middle...
The allegations of illegal distribution of footage come in the wake of a controversy involving the AMRC in which the dean of BU's College of Communications resigned because he thought the AMRC program was flawed by faulty execution and questionable ethics.
But the leader evidently shaped his regime into more of a one-man show than his fellow coup leaders found tolerable. Following Sankara's execution, Radio Ouagadougou accused him of having built up a "concentration of power" and of harboring the "ambitions of a madman." In seizing power last week...
Meanwhile, in another car in the priests' convoy, a young religious student was mistaken for Aristide, badly beaten and saved from execution only when the gang's leader approached, took the boy's face in his hand and then pushed him away. "That's not Aristide," he told his men...
The onslaught prompted a flurry of recriminations over "who lost Bork." Hard-line conservatives criticized Reagan and his aides for not anticipating the strength of the Bork opposition. They also attacked the White House's leisurely execution of its lobbying campaign for the judge. Daniel Casey, executive director of the...