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...watch and film an operation without going through 12 years of medical school. 5.FM: What do you most enjoy about your career? JN: There’s never a dull moment. I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told. I think that the most rewarding part of it is to be able to make something from scratch with a group of other people who believe passionately in what you’re doing, and then see it come...
...date. It tells me eight years have passed since I lost my mother. On September 23, there may be flowers on my family’s dining room table. My father may tell me one of his patients remembered my mother, or that they sent along a card. It is a memory not of the emotions that surround death but of the time that has passed since...
...gone to investigate. "Before I knew it, seven armed policemen arrested me," he said. "They dragged me to my home where they confiscated my video and still cameras, laptop and dicta-phone. I was told that I was being charged for practicing without accreditation. When I produced my press card, they changed the charges to arson. That also didn't stick so they preferred malicious injury to property. [In addition,] I was suspected of attempted murder. Eventually, I was charged with public violence in court." Chikwore was finally released on May 2, along with six M.D.C. activists. All seven have...
Harvard students may be used to getting A’s in their classes, but we fell just short of perfect on another type of report card: A recent release by the Sustainable Endowments Institute gave Harvard an A- on its second annual College Sustainability Report Card, which measures the environmental sustainability of the 200 colleges with the largest endowments. We applaud the Institute’s work in raising awareness about sustainability, and hope that Harvard—one of only six schools to receive the highest grade by the Institute’s measure—will continue...
...says she has found that the rat race causes a diversity of problems. "Not only do you want to keep up with the Joneses, your children want to keep up with the Joneses' children. But debt is something we Indians have never been comfortable with. So mounting credit card bills become a nightmare," she says. "And then there's the uncertainty over downsizing and job cuts. Our generation has seen our parents stay with the same job for life; for a lot of us the prospect of a pink slip is horrifying," she adds...