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They are the anti-megamovies, the blockbuster busters. They boast no big special effects, no $20 million stars. Yet documentaries have become part of the summer-movie landscape, thanks to the robust business done by Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004 and March of the Penguins last year. Docs can hit audiences where all the best movies do: in the heart, in the gut. Here are five of this summer's essays in political outrage and personal triumph...
...Black Halloween animal (CAT or BAT) French 101 word (LUI or OUI) Provider of support, for short (IRA or BRA) Sewing shop purchase (YARN or YARD) Short writings (BITS or BIOS) Trumpet (BOAST or BLAST) Much-debated political inits...
...agriculture, through which people subscribe to a monthly produce basket. And on locavore websites, converts swap shopping tips (Goatsbeard Farm feta from a Missouri cook) and recipes (cheese grits via a Georgia blogger who plugs a stone-ground variety from a mill powered by a mule named Luke). Some boast of eating local on a budget-- $8.34 a day in the case of an Oakland, Calif., activist who got by on sorrel-potato soup and honey-sweetened cookies for dinner. But she confesses, "Let's face it. I can't go without chocolate forever!" For others, coffee is the biggest...
...Narayanamurti, the current dean of DEAS, said he would nix his plans to step down next month and remain on staff to guide the school through its transition. If approved by FAS, the new school will put Harvard on equal footing with institutions that house autonomous engineering schools and boast larger faculties. “It will allow us to continue to attract the kind of faculty and students we want at a time when all major engineering schools in the country are expanding their programs,” Venky, the Armstrong professor of engineering and applied sciences, told...
...federal Government is swimming in revenue. Australia's export prices are at a 30-year high, a record number of people are employed, incomes are rising and company profits are booming. Despite economic squalls in the neighborhood, and beyond, Costello could boast in his Budget speech that Australia was still expanding: "In fact, growing in the longest continuous stretch our nation has ever experienced." Soon Australia would be a $A1 trillion economy...