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...Animated film in the other groups). Best directors were David Fincher for Benjamin Button (NBR), Danny Boyle for Slumdog (D.C. and L.A.) and Mike Leigh for Happy-Go-Lucky (New York). Screenplay prizes were allotted to Slumdog, Benjamin Button, Happy-Go-Lucky, Rachel Getting Married and Gran Torino. Art-house habituées may wish to know that Man on Wire was judged best documentary by all four groups (the only clean sweep), and that the best foreign-language films were Mongol (NBR), the Swedish vampire drama Let the Right One In (D.C.), the Chinese Still Life...
...pull this off? The country has an advantage: it has not yet leveraged its enormous domestic market. The service sector has huge potential. Consider entrepreneurs like Colleen Wang. Instead of employing low-wage metal benders, Wang's ad agency, Rayken, provides jobs for young, middle-class professionals: graphic designers, art directors, a couple of account executives and several copywriters...
...father, for whom the Kennedy School and a major campus thoroughfare are named, she spent her undergraduate career at Harvard much like any other student, living in the freshman dorms and even writing a few stories for The Crimson.After graduation, she worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she met her husband Edwin A. Schlossberg, and then received a law degree from Columbia.In recent years, Kennedy has been very involved with New York public schools, first running the Office of Strategic Partnerships for the city’s Department of Education from 2002 to 2004 and now raising private...
...found at elBulli, Ferran Adrià’s three-Michelin-star restaurant in Catalonia, Spain. The world-renowned chef, known for mixing food and science, spoke about his novel creations to a packed audience last night in Jefferson Hall. Adrià has pioneered, for example, the art of melon caviar—he combines cantaloupe and water with the chemicals alginic acid and calcic to create the spherification of tiny caviar-like balls. The use of scientific techniques—often referred to as molecular gastronomy or molecular cooking—has formed a basis for the cuisine...
Wherefore art thou, concentration requirements?Harvard’s English department has been asking itself this question since last spring, when a task force convened to evaluate the current requirements for concentrators. The task force’s proposal to overhaul the English curriculum was overwhelmingly approved by the department last week, and for good reason: The English department’s willingness to reevaluate its curriculum and standards of instruction shows a laudable level of introspection and an admirable desire to serve its students.The sweeping changes to the concentration are progressive and liberating amendments to a set of requirements...