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...festival has another mission, beyond showing left-leaning films to left-leaning audiences. It wants the world to know that Hollywood's Oscar season does not begin at the much larger Toronto Film Festival, held a week later than Venice. It starts right here. Clooney's Goats, a kooky satire about U.S. soldiers in Iraq who've been trained as "psychic spies," is unlikely to get much attention at the Academy Awards; nor is Cage's work in Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, though the star's intensity as a ? cop deranged by painkillers...
...lite Wikipedians. Chi also notes the rise of wiki-lawyering: for your edits to stick, you've got to learn to cite the complex laws of Wikipedia in arguments with other editors. Together, these changes have created a community not very hospitable to newcomers. Chi says, "People begin to wonder, 'Why should I contribute anymore?'" - and suddenly, like rabbits out of food, Wikipedia's population stops growing...
...bright spot for the Crimson came in the form of freshman Jennifer Martin, who came up big to begin the third frame by diving around the back row, denying the Big Green with two bumps and allowing Harvard to eventually earn its first point...
...been in communication with Smith and other FAS administrators about the post since August, she said. Though Kirwan will not officially begin her responsibilities until Nov. 2, she said she has reached out to professors she knows—including Economics Professor James H. Stock—so that she can start to build a network of faculty contacts, and she said she plans to review relevant readings and financial texts...
With October being Vegetarian Awareness Month and World Vegetarian Day coming up on Thursday, Oct. 1, the lovely ladies in charge of the Harvard College Vegetarian Society have recently announced that the group will begin having monthly lunches in the Lowell House dining hall to encourage more people who are interested in vegetarianism or veganism to join a community of like-minded consumers...