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...authorize their leaders to launch a walk-out when their contract expires at the end of this month. The last WGA strike in 1988 cost the industry an estimated $500 million. This time, "every producer, network and studio has a contingency plan based on an Oct. 31 deadline," says Barbara Brogliatti, spokeswoman for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). "The screens will not go black...
...first film in which she appeared was the 1941 Major Barbara; she played a winsome Salvation Army lass under the tutelage of Hiller, the fresh-faced rage of the day. Kerr's radiance was both more demure and more alluring; and when pregnancy forced Hiller to drop out of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's war epic The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Powell cast Kerr as the three women who, over a 40-year span, weave a romantic spell over the lead character. And over the co-director: Powell fell in love with her. During the shoot...
...Radcliffe Institute itself is unique among institutes for advanced study in the United States in its inclusion of creative artists in the fellowship program,” said Barbara J. Grosz, interim dean of the Institute. “We find that it is invigorating to the artists and the academics alike to have this special kind of cross-disciplinary engagement...
Harvard’s search for a new dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study officially began yesterday as University President Drew G. Faust sent an e-mail to Radcliffe alums, faculty, and staff announcing the appointment of an advisory committee. Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences Barbara J. Grosz has served as interim dean of the institute since Faust, Radcliffe’s founding dean, moved to Mass. Hall on July 1. Homi K. Bhabha, the senior adviser in the humanities at Radcliffe and a member of the advisory committee, said yesterday that the committee will consider both internal...
...founded taught patients how to perform their own cervical exams and pregnancy tests and, controversially, offered an extraction device Rothman developed that could be used for at-home abortions in the early stages of pregnancy. The method angered medical professionals but, in the words of social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, "legitimized the notion that [women] have the right to ... decide about procedures ... that affect our bodies." Rothman was 75 and had cancer...