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...Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" cried Al Jolson halfway through The Jazz Singer. Jolson's urgent, boastful bray--an ad-libbed intro to his rendition of Toot Toot Tootsie--cut through the opening-night audience at the Warner Theatre near Times Square like an obstetrician's scissors severing the umbilical cord to silent films, for 30 years the dominant screen language. But the movies had to talk. Thomas Edison thought so. He and his assistant W.K.L. Dickson had devised a talking-movie machine as early as 1889. In the early '20s short sound...
Even with yesterday’s announcement of the substantial hike in tuition, the Faculty faces a troubled financial future. Associate Dean for Finance Cheryl Hoffman-Bray told the Faculty Council last month that without budget cuts, FAS will face a deficit in 2005. Kirby instituted a “soft freeze on hiring” this fall in order to keep the Faculty from adding positions that it cannot afford in the long...
...meeting and in an interview yesterday, Hoffman-Bray would not detail budget cuts under consideration...
...under a lot of pressure to keep tuition down...but I don’t know what we are going to do next year,” Hoffman-Bray said...
Because of low-interest rates available to Harvard and the long lifetime of capital improvements such as buildings, debt financing can be an attractive option, Hoffman-Bray said...