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What continues to be puzzling is why the Undergraduate Council would award $2,000 to a publication so titillating that it could clearly garner enough advertisers to make do, while requests for community service projects and rape prevention events received only a marginal amount of their requests. Indeed, H Bomb may well make a profit if the magazine sells to enough outsiders for the $5 apiece cover price—which will surely happen if the founders can stress the magazine’s provocative allure (a porn mag for Harvard students?!) over the mundane and self-absorbed reality...
...Three other awards went to Asian artists. The Grand Jury Prize (second place) was given to Park Chan-wook, director of the vigorous, violent Korean melodrama ?Old Boy.? This was precisely the sort of genre film the Festival has previously eschewed, and which Tarantino has championed. In announcing the prize, he said with a big smile, ?The Jury is DELIGHTED to award....? Yuya Yagira, the 14-year-old star of Hirokazu Kore-eda?s poignant Japanese drama ?Nobody Knows,? won the Best Actor prize. Best Actress went to Hong Kong?s Maggie Cheung for her role as a drug addict...
...first time in memory, the screening times of three other official selections had to be changed at the last moment. And please try to ignore the melancholy fact that, though the Cannes jury gave four of its eight prizes to Asian directors and actors (including the Best Actress award to frequent Wong muse Maggie Cheung), none of them went to the festival's finest film...
...Senior Class Committee will host screenings of “Da Ali G Show,” which was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2003, to introduce Baron Cohen to the class...
Akyeampong, who describes the award as a “wonderful honor,” was the chair of the Committee on African Studies until it was folded into the new Department of African and African-American Studies...