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10 • The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> March 2, 2007<br />
MUSIC • VISUAL ARTS • DINING • BAR SCENE • ENTERTAINMENT • PERFORMANCE ARTS<br />
At the Library: Th ree Cups of Tea<br />
Th ree Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission<br />
to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations .<br />
. . One School at a Time<br />
By Greg Mortenson, and David Oliver<br />
Relin<br />
Reviewed by Sheila Bonny<br />
In Th ree Cups of Tea,<br />
David Oliver Relin collaborates<br />
with Greg Mortenson<br />
to weave a remarkable tale of<br />
how one man’s determination<br />
led to the establishment<br />
of a network of schools along<br />
both sides of the Pakistan/Afghanistan<br />
border.<br />
After a failed attempt on the K2<br />
peak in the Pakistan Himalayas, American<br />
mountaineer Greg Mortenson recovered<br />
his health and spirit while living<br />
among the people of Korphe, an isolated<br />
and impoverished mountain village. In<br />
appreciation, he vowed to alleviate the<br />
villagers’ poverty by building a school<br />
for their children.<br />
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1 The Departed<br />
2 The Prestige<br />
3 Man of the Year<br />
4 Flushed Away<br />
5 Flags of our Fathers<br />
Th is mission led to ten years of<br />
building projects during which Mortenson<br />
endured innumerable fundraising<br />
speaking engagements, months of<br />
separation from his family, fatwas by<br />
suspicious Islamic clerics, capture by<br />
Kalashnikov-wielding muhahadeen<br />
and interrogation by<br />
the CIA.<br />
From his mentor, Korphe’s<br />
illiterate village chief,<br />
Mortenson also learned the<br />
importance of sharing cups of<br />
tea and establishing relationships<br />
with the people of the<br />
villages.<br />
As Relin describes a wild<br />
countryside where Afghani refugees<br />
poured over the border to escape the<br />
Taliban, where boy soldiers were indoctrinated<br />
in Saudi-funded military<br />
schools and where Al Qaeda operatives<br />
infi ltrated the villages, the reader<br />
acquires a unique understanding of the<br />
situation in Central Asia today.<br />
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Movie Review: The Prestige<br />
Review by Zephyr Rawbon<br />
Are you watching closely? Apparently<br />
there are three acts to a magician’s<br />
performance. First, the pledge<br />
– something simple and ordinary is<br />
presented to the audience by said magician.<br />
Second, the turn – the magician<br />
takes the simple and ordinary<br />
object and shifts it into something<br />
spectacular. Now, I don’t know about<br />
you, but at this stage of the act I need<br />
to be entertained, fooled, by something<br />
that is going to tie the whole<br />
thing together. And that’s when the<br />
third act is presented - the prestige.<br />
Based on a novel by Christopher<br />
Pries, Th e Prestige is story of rival magicians,<br />
Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman)<br />
and Alfred Borden (Christian<br />
Bale), and their lifelong struggle to<br />
perform the ultimate trick and ultimately<br />
be the better magician.<br />
Along for the ride is an ensemble<br />
cast including such notables as Mi-<br />
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TOP FIVE OF THE WEEK<br />
Last Week’s Top 5 Rentals New Releases Feb. 27<br />
1 Stranger than Fiction<br />
2 Last King of Scotland<br />
3 A Good Year<br />
4 Factotum<br />
5 Let’s go to Prison<br />
New Releases Mar. 6<br />
1 Borat<br />
2 Decoys: The Second Seduction<br />
3 Let’s Go To Prison<br />
4 Fast Food Nation<br />
5 Song for a Raggy Boy<br />
chael Caine, Scarlett Johansen and<br />
David Bowie. Keep your eyes open<br />
for other actors you may not have seen<br />
in a while. Oh, and keep an eye open<br />
for Andy Serkis, an actor you may not<br />
recognize since he usually plays computer-generated<br />
characters.<br />
I won’t go too strongly into the<br />
details of this movie. All I know is<br />
that when it ended, over two hours<br />
had passed and I had no idea where<br />
the time went. I was seriously entertained.<br />
Director Chrisopher Nolan has<br />
used a number of his own intricate<br />
tricks to tie together this story. Whether<br />
it is the fl ashback techniques, the<br />
special eff ects, or the good old-fashioned<br />
storylines of deception, Nolan<br />
once again proves that he is a movie<br />
magician in his own right.<br />
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