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...love for independent film and a lack of money. The festival, then called the U.S. Film Festival, began in Salt Lake City in 1978 as a way for founders Sterling Van Wagenen, John Earle and Cirina Hampton Catania to attract more filmmakers to Utah. Redford was its first board chairman. The inaugural event focused on retrospectives of classic American films, with a few awards given to new works. It was moderately successful, with long lines for screenings and a few high-profile panelists like actress Cicely Tyson, but the organizers were left in the red - prompting them to hold another...
...light of its financial difficulties, Harvard will likely need to cut costs in order to accommodate more residents over the break. Thus, the College should consider having students apply separately for room and board. Ideally, everyone who remains on campus during J-term would receive a meal plan. However, Harvard cannot wait to expand the program until economic conditions improve. Awarding HUDS privileges based on an application process that considers financial need could allow the College to increase the number of students in residence over J-term at low cost...
...followed - not yet, at least. Instead, poll workers spent that election night obscuring the results of the vote, in deference to a last-minute congressional amendment pulling funds from D.C. for the processing of any drug-legalization initiative. (Ballots had been printed prior to the ban, but the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics decided that to follow the intent of the law it had to withhold the results after the votes had been cast.) "I know of no case where a federal entity has told another entity they cannot even announce the results," says WTOP analyst Mark Plotkin...
...moderate Republican at heart, a market-based Keynesian who has a lot in common with Obama economists such as Larry Summers or Christina Romer, a pragmatist whose defining political experience before the past couple of years was getting screamed at by antitax activists while serving on a local school board. He's also a longtime inflation dove, and since the crisis began he's shown unprecedented willingness to jam the accelerator. It's true that he talks a fair amount about hitting the brakes someday, but he hasn't even tapped them yet. (See Ben Bernanke's life in photos...
...Crimson swept the diving events as well, as junior Jenny Reese won the three-meter dive and sophomore Leslie Rea led a top-four sweep on the one-meter board...