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...James' The Turn of the Screw and other literary and cinematic works (including The Others, also by a Spanish director) that investigate the power the dead have over the living, especially over children in the most imaginative and vulnerable stages. It concerns Laura (Belen Rueda), who as a child spent time in the Good Shepherd Orphanage before being adopted. For her the orphanage was not a horror house but the dearest refuge, where she had a half-dozen close friends her age, and which she recalls so fondly that after her marriage to a nice doctor, Carlos (Fernando Cayo...
Darnton, a scholar in the "history of the book," will be returning to his alma mater after teaching at Princeton for nearly 40 years. He spent his undergraduate years in Adams House and served as a junior fellow on the Society of Fellows...
...February bus bombings confessed to being Fatah al-Islam members working for Syria, with apparent orders to attack U.N. forces in southern Lebanon and target 36 Lebanese for assassination. Syrian officials angrily rejected the accusations, saying that the group was affiliated to al-Qaeda and that al-Absi spent three years in a Syrian prison on terrorism charges...
...defeat of Lowell, which had seemed dominant early in the game, the war officially concluded. Members of the House war councils said that they dedicated hours out of their reading and finals periods for the war effort. Sheffield estimated that Pforzheimer’s three most active members collectively spent 400 hours over the course of the game. Sheffield said he had played about 16 hours a day during the first week. —Staff writer Joyce Y. Zhang can be reached at jyzhang@fas.harvard.edu...
...Hergé has been accused of racism in Tintin in Congo (although this book is particularly popular in Africa). Hergé was later arrested for being a wartime collaborator as he continued to draw cartoons for newspapers that were controlled by the Nazi occupiers during World War II. He spent a night in prison, but his file was eventually closed without legal action. But rumors and insinuations followed him for the rest of his life, and he had frequent bouts of depression...