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...whim of the Zeitgeist. It is certainly a boon for critics looking for (or inventing) common threads in important films. But all three directors -and British director James Marsh, who has a much-noted feature shown out of competition -are investigating the pull of the raucous past on the calmer present. The films ask: What is identity? Are we the people we were or the ones we become? Can we ever escape our past, or can we only learn to live with...
...Still, the power of his position forced him to consider the consequences of his often-glib writing, a requirement he describes as an important boon...
...says with a smile, “The long summer vacations are a boon...
...little more than a year has passed since the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and College administrators created the Harvard University Campus Escort Program (HUCEP). During that time, the program has been tinkered with, but throughout its existence thus far, HUCEP has been a boon to Harvard...
KORUSEC has been a financial boon for Buckham's firm. Although the law strictly limits how much a charity may spend on lobbying, KORUSEC's filings with the Internal Revenue Service indicate it pays Buckham's Alexander Strategy Group $5,000 a month in rent for a Georgetown office where repeated calls by TIME were answered only by a machine featuring the voice of a long-departed executive director. In addition, one of Kim's subsidiaries--Universal Bearings Inc., a manufacturer in Indiana--has paid Buckham's firm $600,000 since 2001 for what its federal filing describes as lobbying...