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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Among the autograph hounds, ruthless executives, and puffy-jacketed celebrities at this year’s Sundance Film Festival stood three Harvard alumni in town for the premiere of the film they had worked on together for the past four years. “Thin”—directed by Lauren Greenfield ’87, produced by R.J. Cutler ’83, and shot by Amanda R. Micheli ’95—entered this year into the festival’s documentary competition, and the trio weren’t about to miss...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins and Hayes H. Davenport, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Graduates' Project Shines at Sundance | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

...stuff," says Chu. "Students would sit and listen and try to capture every word. Now they're asking lots of questions." During a 100th-anniversary celebration for Peking University a few years ago, Chu found himself seated next to China's Minister for Education. "She was asking for my autograph," he says, shaking his head. "It was totally topsy-turvy. Can you imagine in the U.S. the Secretary of Education fawning on a Nobel prizewinner? It just won't happen." In his book Thomas Friedman puts it another way: "In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are We Losing Our Edge? | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...have been named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, but Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker says he’s still a little surprised when people stop him on the street to ask for an autograph...

Author: By Kristin E. Blagg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DAY IN THE LIFE: How Steven Pinker Works | 11/4/2005 | See Source »

...Smith awakens our desires for greatness, then her latest novel (her third, after 2000’s name-making “White Teeth” and 2002’s lukewarm “The Autograph Man”) is a test of her ambition. “On Beauty” is an homage—Smith’s term—to E.M. Forster’s 1910 opus “Howards End,” a sweeping tale of two families at ideological war, one vehemently artistic and the other all business...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beautiful Zadie’s Novel Disappointingly Dense | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

...every attic contains old Beatles tickets, of course. But people will also buy more mundane relics such as autograph books, railroad timetables or sets of love letters. Why? They do so for many reasons, say experts, not the least of which is living history. "People are intrigued by the past," says Jaben Broach, owner of CollecTons, an eBay drop-off shop in Boulder, Colo. "And often letters, diaries or ledgers reveal a time and place much better than any history book." Professional auctioneer G.G. (Gwen Glass) Carbone, author of How to Make a Fortune with Other People's Junk, sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: $$$ in the Attic | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

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