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...last of Harvard’s in-house security guard positions were outsourced to a private firm, Allied-Barton Security, last fall, resulting in the folding of their former union. Allied-Barton Security guards are not unionized...
...consortium, which is called Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI), will have labs at Duke, Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Alabama. Barton Haynes, a professor of immunology at Duke University, will head CHAVI, though three Harvard professors will head three of its five core areas of research...
...Balatsos of the Kidder Peabody investment firm has called a "virtuous cycle." This cycle is a mirror image of the vicious spiral of the 1970s, when soaring oil prices and roaring inflation created rising unemployment, slumping stock prices and economic stagnation. Now things are going the other way. Exults Barton Biggs, chief portfolio strategist for the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "It's like watching the movie of the 1970s run backwards...
...wake of the 1991 Palmares, when the Jury voted three top prizes (the Palme, Best Director and Best Actor) to the Coen brothers' Barton Fink, the Festival imposed a rule against awarding the same film the Palme and Director prizes. This flies in the face of Cannes' deep and long-held belief that the director is the author of the film. In this Church of Auteurism, the best film must be the work of the best director. But Cannes is at least as political as it is canonical. It wants to make almost everybody happy, to distribute its party favors...
...Often U.S. films have won the Palme d'Or: everything from Disney's Dumbo at the first festival in 1946 to three consecutive American indies of the late 80s and early 90s (sex, lies, and videotape, Wild at Heart, Barton Fink). In the last two years, with American political domination a sore point to much of the world, Cannes pinned its crowning laurels on Gus Van Sant's Elephant, with its evocation of the Columbine High School massacre, and Fahrenheit 9/11. The prizes were as much messages to the world's only superpower as they were nods to the films...