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Nathan Burstein

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The Girl Next Door Directed by Luke Greenfield 20th Century Fox There is something slightly disconcerting about The Girl


Harvard Needs More Plugging In

It didn’t take long for me to realize there was something unusual—compulsive, even—about my TV viewing habits over spring break.


‘Passion’ in Context

In his 25 years as the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Muslim, consistently demonstrated support for violence against his


Movie Review

Perhaps my film-going companion summed it up best when, on his way out of The Last Samurai, he remarked that


Movie Review

In Elephant, director Gus Van Sant depicts what most Americans only imagined in the days after the Columbine High School


The Eminem Show

the year is 1995. Vanilla Ice is nothing more than a pop culture joke, Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G.


All Mouth and No Brain

Ann Coulter is an expert on slander. Slander, after all, was the title of her second book, in which she


The Shame of Mary Robinson

In yet another display of the unfortunate double standard plaguing the current debate on the Middle East, former U.N. Human