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...screenings and visits from filmmakers, the archive’s more significant role takes place behind-the-scenes in collecting and preserving its coveted collection. Film reels age very poorly, undergoing wear and tear from repeated play and chemical decomposition over time. Under the auspices of conservator Julie A. Buck, the HFA has been restoring thousands of prints, repairing and cleaning severely damaged reels with high-tech equipment in its Watertown facility...
...Harvard women’s basketball team found itself in a familiar position, having won big the previous night and opening the game with a cold shooting spell. But Saturday night, the Crimson (12-10, 5-4 Ivy) was able to buck its trend of tightening up when shots aren’t falling and held off a spirited Cornell (8-15, 3-7) squad 68-55 at Lavietes Pavilion...
...FIRM DOLLAR Many believe the buck, which slumped 17% against the euro last year, will continue to weaken as the U.S. government keeps spending money it doesn't have. Yet rising interest rates attract foreign investment and often buoy the dollar, which firmed noticeably after Greenspan's rate signal in late January. The buck may hold firm if, as seems logical, Europe cuts interest rates to combat slow growth. A steady dollar would remove the currency edge of foreign securities, which in dollar terms rose nearly twice as much as they did in local currencies last year. You should favor...
...Guardian Council might get the message across to a few Iranians that would otherwise have blown off a purely American objection. Second, going to the U.N. would also help the United States regain a little of its credibility lost after the Iraq war. Bush should be trying to buck the image of the go-it-alone cowboy and demonstrate that he has at least the capacity to be a team player...
...like Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. When the corporate scandals rocked Wall Street, O'Neill and Greenspan devised a plan to make CEOs accountable. Bush went with a more modest plan because "the corporate crowd," as O'Neill calls it in the book, complained loudly and Bush could not buck that constituency. "The biggest difference between then and now," O'Neill tells Suskind about his two previous tours in Washington, "is that our group was mostly about evidence and analysis, and Karl [Rove], Dick [Cheney], Karen [Hughes] and the gang seemed to be mostly about politics. It's a huge...