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...public relations apparatus.Summers, who became Harvard president after a year-and-a-half as President Bill Clinton’s Treasury secretary, quickly became known for a “Washington-style” attitude toward the media.It was that style, some say, that contributed to his increasing alienation from the Faculty and his ultimate downfall this semester. ACADEMIA’S PHOTO-OPAndrew D. Gordon ’74, the chair of the History department, tells a story about the first time he had “a sense of real concern about what is going on with this...
...Madonna,” writes in an e-mail that he is fond of the endless mornings sitting in Scott’s kitchen brainstorming ideas for science-fiction stories. “We would start with an outlandish idea—such as, what if there were an alien race whose life cycle literally followed Freudian psychology?—and beat it back and forth in a sort of verbal volleyball, going off on tangents, adding new ideas and different points of view, ranging over everything from history to chemistry to religion.”WHAT?...
...Fortnight had a winner with The Host, which imagines a sea monster, Nessie mixed with Godzilla, rising from the Han River to terrorize the good people of Seoul. Variety's Todd McCarthy called it the surprise hit of the Festival, saying it "provoked widespread comparison to Jaws and Alien in its scare quotient and filmmaking expertise." So many buyers were turned away from packed early screenings that more had to be scheduled...
...believe that. But the movie isn't as simple as you make it out to be. It's also a tremendously pertinent essay on international politics. You have the illegal alien, Amelia, who can't protect herself or her charges though she has the best intentions in the world. Then there's Richard, the American in an Arab land, who can't be immediately helped by his government because the shooting is suspected to be a terrorist act. But the film is mainly, I think, about children. They are the most vulnerable of humans, the most likely...
...nonetheless respect the freedom and conscience of others as part of their core understanding of what being a Christian is. They have no problem living next to an atheist or a gay couple or a single mother or people whose views on the meaning of life are utterly alien to them--and respecting their neighbors' choices. That doesn't threaten their faith. Sometimes the contrast helps them understand their own faith better...