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...silence, for silence in his memory, silence in his honor, silence in gratitude to and for Jeremy Knowles.”The Faculty fell quiet, perhaps considering the legacy of a man who had achieved so much in the confines of that very room in University Hall.A BROAD RESTRUCTURINGDean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith discussed plans for a wide administrative restructuring at the meeting, emphasizing a bigger role for divisional deans and proposing to temporarily slow faculty hiring.The divisional deans would take on increased roles, including control over budgeting, faculty searches, hiring and salaries, and academic and strategic planning.Government...
...Finance Committee Chair Andrea R. Flores ’10 said HRTV programs “are filling a niche” for campus-wide entertainment. “HRTV is open to everyone, and anyone can access it,” she said. According to Koenigs, creating a broad-based video-sharing Web site has been a goal of HRTV for some time. The group hopes CrimsonClips will both expand HRTV’s scope and help archive visual arts performances and events at Harvard. “We want to capture the Harvard experience; we?...
...Rififi, in which four men break into a jewelry store through the ceiling, codified the caper plot: it shows how they plan to do it, then shows how they do it, then shows how they get caught. Except for the gimmick of the silent half-hour, and broad comic turns from a few supporting players, the film plays the material straight. Epiphanies emerge naturally, like the moments when the gang, in the apartment above the shop, chisels a hole in the floor, and we get our first, eerily surreal view of the jewelry premises, as an umbrella is lowered through...
...Pentagon declassified a key memo used to justify the abuse of prisoners by the U.S. military in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantnamo Bay. Completed six days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the full text of the 81-page document is rife with shockingly broad edicts about prisoner treatment, like this barely constitutional chestnut: "In wartime, it is for the President alone to decide what methods to use to prevail against the enemy...
...care of him, is charming, funny, and by far the film’s greatest strength. Like nearly all movies with a political agenda, however, “Under the Same Moon” has its limitations. Director Patricia Riggen primarily uses the mother-son story to frame a broad survey of illegal immigrant hardship. It’s a well-intentioned move to educate the public, but the film’s sweeping view of Mexican working life gives us a simplified picture of saintly illegals that sometimes veers a bit too close to propaganda. Over the course...