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...rare chimera: someone who fervently believes that the films are legitimate art, but that their artistic merit comes from the very flashiness and simplicity for which they are so often written off as pieces of crass commercialism.Before addressing the more theoretical elements of McCallum’s approach to filmmaking, two sure-to-be-controversial revelations are in order. First off, even though McCallum emphatically states that “there won’t be any more [Star Wars] films,” there is going to be a live-action “Star Wars?...
...current Thomas Professor of African and African American Studies Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Phyllis S. Taoua, a scholar of Francophone literature at the University of Arizona who said she plans to write her second book while a Du Bois fellow, said she found the Institute appealing because of its multifaceted approach to African studies. “The reason I applied to the Du Bois Institute was its emphasis on interdisciplinary study,” she said. “I think that the interdisciplinary [approach] is central for studying Africa, because when you just study Africa, if you just study...
...Harvard’s hands-off approach to local politics may lie more in its students’ priorities than in the nature of the town-gown divide. Even at Yale, a university bounded by urban disaster on all sides, students traditionally leave some imprint on city government...
...newly registered Republicans who call themselves fiscal conservatives (91.2% last year), all new G.O.P.ers (75.7%) and overall (65.3%)--numbers that he says show the power of tax cuts. Mehlman sets goals for volunteer recruiting by state, county and precinct, and uses stats to pick his team: "The performance-based approach says that whoever produces the best results is the person you put in charge." One problem: figures don't always reflect rapid change or account for the element of surprise. But Mehlman is a believer. He's already crunching numbers for the next big game: the 2006 midterm elections...
...grand plans for the future shouldn’t affect the quality of the life in the Quad now.” In spite of the protest last week, HCL attributed the changes to recent discussions of student needs. “We do not consider protests a useful approach to solving problems—instead research, analysis, and reasoned discussion generally tend to shape changes in our libraries,” Nancy M. Cline, Roy E. Larsen Librarian of Harvard College, wrote in an e-mail. But members of the UC commended QUAD’s efforts as instrumental...