Trojans hope to begin year on right foot


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Every year around this time there is a faint sense of renewal and change we really can believe in. When the calendar flips to a new 365-day period, the talk is always about what we hope to achieve tomorrow, not of what we didn’t achieve yesterday. Yet in these often best-laid plans, our fickleness typically […]

Dogtooth delves into strange psyche and presents harrowing story


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The latest film from director Giorgos Lanthimos concerns a pair of unnamed, affluent parents (Christos Stergioglou and Michele Valley) whose take on raising children involves physically, intellectually and emotionally confining their offspring to the lush grounds of a gated home. Filmed almost entirely within the tropical estate, the picture might as well be set on […]

Music in 2010 ranged from appealing to disappointing


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Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard once whined, “So this is the new year / and I don’t feel any different.” Thankfully, in 2010, things were different from the year before. Sobby emo music like Death Cab was no longer popular, and Kanye West pushed the creative boundaries of contemporary music. Now that it’s […]

START could repair American image


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The New START Treaty, which limits the amount of strategic nuclear weapons that both the United States and Russia are allowed to have deployed at any time, was approved by the U.S. Senate in late December, overcoming its last hurdle. The treaty fostered a contentious   debate in Washington, but in the end, the treaty […]