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...blue-eyed son, my darling young one?"), building a Chartres of apocalyptic imagery. Dylan once said he didn't know if the world would survive the Cuban Missile Crisis, so he put all his songs into one. This great one ends with a declaration of the poet's mission: "And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it, / And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it, / And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin', / But I'll know my song well before I start singin...
...persons. Eliminating CLC became necessary after the creation last month of the independent College Events Board (CEB), whose acitivities will be funded by University Hall. With the CEB in charge of planning campuswide social events, it would be redundant to maintain a UC committee with the same primary mission. Instrumental to the bill’s passage was a group of highly dedicated student activists. A loose coalition of campus politicos, including officers of (but not representing) the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club, as well as a few UC leaders and a few bloggers, successfully...
...questionable" points in his 80-page screenplay - before it hit Iranian screens. Other directors alternate their unseen social projects with blockbuster family films that keep their names circulating back at home. But Panahi refuses either to self-censor or to sell out. Instead, he's on a one-man mission to project his country's social ills onto the big screen. "Every three years I make one film which I think is necessary and important," he says. "If I didn't make these kinds of films, I'd be making much more money. But that's just...
...Islam," that sounds about right. Guests of the Ayatollah (Atlantic Monthly Press; 680 pages) is his detailed and bleakly compelling account of what the hostages endured during the siege and of the anguish it produced in the U.S. The author of Black Hawk Down, about the 1993 U.S. military mission in Mogadishu that went lethally wrong, Bowden knows something about American misadventures in the wider world. He may not be a policy analyst, but he writes about events in a way that gives a clear picture of both high-level decision making and the price paid by people...
...siege wore on, a desperate Carter reached for an improbable armed mission. The plan called for slipping members of the U.S.'s still untested new Delta Force, an élite Army rescue unit, through Iranian airspace to a makeshift desert landing strip in Iran. Then they would be trucked into Tehran, where they would somehow fight their way into the embassy compound and out of it again with the hostages in tow. Instead, a Delta Force chopper collided on the runway with a C-130 transport plane that had 44 Delta troops inside, and eight soldiers died in the fireball...