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...course, some of you have realized that this parting shot itself presents a lesson of sorts: that there are few lessons to be taken from Harvard in any broad sense. Some of the more intellectually-playful types among you will undoubtedly see a contradiction in this, and announce the fatal flaw in this article with a typical “I’m-the-smart-guy-in-section” flourish...
...burqa and claim that she is the wife of her patient's son. We know that a happy ending in reality?indeed, if it is an ending and if it is happy?came only years later, with the overthrow of the Taliban. But the two Afghan films give a lesson that other directors, at Cannes and beyond, could learn from: that life, as it is endured on the vast margins of civilized society, is the most exciting and soul-wrenching form of melodrama. Its dilemmas are not solved by bullets or resolved by bombs...
...accepted his prize, Boe made this plea into the ether: "Vincent Gallo, don't give up! We need to fight conventional filmmaking." Someone needs to make, and fight for, better films. Maybe next year: Cannes 2004 has already been dubbed the Atonement Festival. But if there's a lesson from Cannes 2003, it's that bad films are more fun to talk about than great ones. They're almost as good as rumors...
...that he would resign in July, must be judged a success for such fealty to his boss' wishes. Democrats express grudging admiration for the Bush team's remarkable ability to control the flow of information. "There is a fairly large group of Democrats who think there's a great lesson in this," says Joe Lockhart, who held Fleischer's job under President Clinton. But can the Fleischer Method be mimicked? Here are three topics that will test the truth-stretching skills of Ari's successor...
...short treks simply to acclimatize. Hours were measured out with cups of tea and swapped books. At the Thangsing camp at 3,800 meters we fashioned a ball from plastic bags, turning a dull afternoon into an impromptu football match, with dzo droppings for goalposts. But a hard lesson was driven home: playing soccer at altitude results in vomiting and a skull-splitting headache...