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...From the looks of thebooks in the front of the Harvard Books Store today, there’s no one rightanswer.The Philosopher’s Apprentice, by JamesMorrowThe cover of “The Philosopher’s Apprentice”takes a middle-of-the-road approachby dividing the cover in half. Inthe bottom left corner is what looks likean early printing press title page for a Platonictreatise. This apprentice must actuallybe a legitimate philosopher—he’sread Plato. On the upper right, it lookslike a Renaissance artist started makingout with his nude model...
...resonates powerfully over a doughy beat layered beneath the sampled bells of Bob James’s “Take me to the Mardi Gras.” Del seems more than happy to let the flash-in-the-pan artists “stroll down the golden road [even though] you know they’ll hate it when they find out the bricks is golden plated...
...Sleepwalking,” a new film from directorBill Maher, opens with a shot of anempty road stretching out into the distancethrough a flat, nondescript landscape.This overused and bland imageis representative of the film as a whole.Even heartfelt performances cannotquite compensate for a plot that teetersbetween tedium and brutality, and a tritescript that only barely leaves room forcharacter development.AnnaSophia Robb (“Bridge to Terabithia”)plays Tara, a troubled but lovable12-year-old who grapples with beingneglected by her mother. Early in thefilm, Tara’s mother, Joleen (played byCharlize Theron, “Monster?...
...methat’s very protective when I get attachedto material or somebody’s vision thatmakes me realize that if I do step in as aproducer, the vow I’m making is, ‘We’regoing to set out on this road to tell thisstory, and we’re going to go balls out,’”she said.“Monster” also garnered her a 2004Oscar win for Best Actress. Her partnershipwith Patty Jenkins, who wrote anddirected the film, reinforced Theron’s determinationto...
...security services, and the same month, a group of Italian civil engineers were captured but ultimately released in northern Mali. The growing risk of abduction or terrorist violence by jihadists in the region ultimately caused the organizers of the annual Dakar Rally to cancel the cross-desert off-road car race for the first time since was launched...