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...dress swishing to the tempo. Soon they were both spinning confidently, grinning as they raised their hands and wiggled their fingers. Jazz hands! Jazz hands! They were barely being ironic. In the galleries, marble statues clutched each other and were quiet. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at beckett@fas.harvard.edu. Staff writer Alexander B. Fabry can be reached at fabry@fas.harvard.edu...
...Harvard,” Faust said in her introduction to Kushner’s speech. Kushner’s second lecture, focusing on film, anxiety and his new screenplay about Abraham Lincoln, is today at 4:30 in Lowell Lecture Hall. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...make matters worse, despite Hofeld doing his best Josh Beckett impression, the same problems that Harvard brought into yesterday’s games are still lingering...
...stories falsely suggesting their possible involvement in Madeleine's disappearance began appearing. Media experts here say the Express papers were the worst offenders, printing a steady - and in circulation terms lucrative - flow of arch but unsubstantiated innuendo. "There was a drip, drip, drip of negative splash headlines," says Charlie Beckett, a media expert at the London School of Economics. "Syringe that 'Knocked Out Maddie' Found," claimed one ludicrous Star headline, while the Express screamed: "Find the Body or McCanns Will Escape." Some stories in those papers alleged the McCanns might have sold Madeleine because of financial woes, while others among...
...Much of what the British papers printed were allegations that first surfaced in Portuguese newspapers, which were having a field day of their own. But that is "absolutely not" a defense in British libel law, says Michael Smyth, a partner at international law firm Clifford Chance. Adds Beckett: "There's a notion that if you repeat a lie from a foreign newspaper it's somehow okay. But most media lawyers will tell you it's still a bloody...