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Strange things happened in that warehouse. The digital--back lot approach places an immense burden on the director. "Zack would go, 'Come and see this stage!'" says Lena Headey, who plays Leonidas' wife. "And we'd go, and there'd be, like, a rock. And we'd be like, 'Has he taken acid this morning? Or what's he looking at?'" Snyder had to make his actors see what he saw, and he saw things that weren't there yet. "Every now and then I'd stop and go, 'This is crazy!'" he says. "'What are we doing?' And then...
...Iraq has driven nearly 4 million people from their homes. As many as 2 million have fled the country, in what Refugees International calls the fastest-growing crisis in the world. As detailed in the stories that follow, the burden of coping with this exodus has fallen most heavily on Iraq's neighbors, such as Syria, Jordan and Iran, who have absorbed the vast majority of exiles. But the war's reverberations are being felt beyond the Middle East, in places as seemingly distant and incongruous as Sweden, which has taken in more than 11,000 Iraqis since...
...been buried long ago. And now, with the recent Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) announcement of a revised advising program to provide academic counseling for first-semester sophomores—concentration choice does not have to be made until then, thanks to the curricular review—the burden of advising undecided sophomores has been foisted on already-overworked House resident tutors...
...comes from upperclass undergraduates who are enthusiastic and knowledgeable about their concentration. Harvard should tap this resource by creating a regularized system whereby concentrations train and make available paid upperclass undergraduates to advise first-years and first-semester sophomores on concentration choice. Naturally, larger concentrations will have a larger burden, but it is important that these upperclassmen are easily accessible through e-mail and through regular office hours. While the onus will still be on students to seek out the help they need, the College will be providing a great service by making quality advice available and accessible...
...accepting more--comes close to matching Syria's largesse. "The price of this disaster is being paid mainly by the refugees themselves and by two countries: Syria and Jordan," says António Guterres, the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees. "The international community can't let [them] bear this burden alone...