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...This bloodsucking tale does serve the function of a standard college guide, but the introduction of the undead livens up the process. The story follows one Parker Norcross, who has found herself stranded outside Adams House without an ID card during intersession. When she discovers a staked body in the Adams Pool Theater, her vampire hunt commences. As Harvard buildings, majors, clubs, or concepts are mentioned in the story, they appear in bold and an explanation appears in a small paragraph in the margin...
...seventh day, they caught a movie. When the lights go down at Pope Paul VI Hall on Nov. 26, The Nativity Story will become the first feature film ever to premiere at the Vatican. The creation tale of this movie is, by Hollywood standards, pretty miraculous. Screenwriter Mike Rich told his agent last November that he would like to write a story that many Christians have seen performed every Christmas Eve of their lives--but this time without first-graders playing the wise men. "If I had brought this subject matter into the mainstream studio system four or five years...
...wrong. Dorrance's University of North Carolina women's soccer team has won 18 of the 25 national championships in collegiate history. (Mia Hamm is its most notable alum.) Crothers spent four all-access years with Dorrance and his players for this rich biography and tells the tale of an imperfect man who has shaped a near perfect program. Dorrance is at once a master motivator who writes touching letters to his players and invests himself in all aspects of their lives and a man described by former players and opposing coaches as "arrogant," "cruel" and even "evil." Crothers reaches...
...surprised how many film lovers my age tell exactly the same story, like a mass-hallucination tale from some '50s science-fiction epic. And with the same film cuing the conversion. The Seventh Seal sparked a generation of young people to make foreign-language films their urgent research project, their obsession, their religion. Our interest spread to other Bergman films, to other European and Japanese directors and the actors who graced their works. Soon enough, we noticed that many of these hallowed pictures were distributed by one company: Janus Films...
Perhaps the McMansion has even contributed to the current American renascence of triumphalist conservatism with its own fairy-tale romanticizing of the past. Our current McMansion conservatives, although often ignorant of history, would recreate the nation by returning it to some vague, Edenic period when everything was right in the country (usually, this means the 1950s, which is as far back as most remember). This sense of nostalgia is not only myopic but woefully artificial. Instead of appealing to an organic tradition, conservatives increasingly create one in their minds...