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...without studies of filmmakers. The TFF had at least three: of Roberto Rossellini and his part-time muse Ingrid Bergman, and of two auteurs who were so "indie" they were nearly isolated: Robert Frank and Jack Smith. I skipped the Rossellini movie, though it was made by the wonderful Canadian zany Guy Maddin, because I heard that some members of the Rossellini family were outraged by it, and I was not in a mood to take sides between two groups I respect. In Robert Frank: Leaving Home Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank, director Gerald Fox manages...
...except for the rare cases of exceptional talents foregoing eligibility, is not for a year, and they can start by focusing on winning next season.All this is true unless you are Harvard running back Clifton Dawson, who was chosen in the sixth round of last week’s Canadian Football League draft by his hometown team, the Toronto Argonauts.Many expected him to go higher than his 47th pick, but as he is only a junior, teams were not sure what to expect.“He was highly rated on our draft board,” said Argonaut assistant...
...socializing at HBS, where the person next to you at the bar might be the next CEO of a Fortune 500. Despite several nights of such extracurricular activities each week, HBS students still find time to make it to class. Even after one particularly rowdy night with the HBS Canadian Club at Mantra, a trendy Boston club, almost every student was present the following morning in Aldrich Hall, Room 11, section E’s home base. “Sleep gets sacrificed,” says section member Seth B. Blackley about the HBS lifestyle. According to Kim, section...
...challenge that the 20th-century philosopher of modern communication theory Marshall McLuhan would comprehend. The Canadian-born writer, who coined the phrase "the medium is the message," was also a devout Catholic. In one conversation recorded by his wife, McLuhan said: "Christ came to demonstrate God's love for man and to call all men to Him through himself as Mediator, as Medium. And in so doing he became the proclamation of his Church, the message of God to man. God's medium became God's message...
...operation. "We have nothing." But that could soon change - perhaps dramatically, according to oil engineers. Last week, Kurdish officials announced that the rig outside Tawke would begin producing oil early next year - Iraq's first new foreign oil production since the U.S. invasion three years ago. Turkish, British and Canadian oil companies have been negotiating with Kurdish officials in recent months to revive old oil fields and drill new ones. "There's a race on to get fields into production," says a Western consultant in Kurdistan, too fearful for his safety to be named. "People are very, very optimistic." Because...