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...will mark the brothers' third financial bonanza in show business, the first taking place when they sold their struggling indie-movie company to Disney in 1993 for $70 million. After bristling for years under the control-freak management of former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, they ended the bitter final chapter of their Miramax reign on an up note. "After we signed our final contracts, we took all the Disney lawyers to a three-hour, raucous, rollicking dinner," recalls Harvey...
...Then the chapter lays out concrete steps that citizens and elected officials can take to decrease tensions between the police and the communities they serve. For example, it recommends that individuals get to know the officers who patrol their neighborhoods and that police forces “adequately train all officers in cultural sensitivity, racial profiling, and excessive force policies.” “The Covenant” is so valuable because it is filled with these kinds of practical strategies...
Written shortly before the great cinematographer’s death in 1983, this autobiography fulfils the goals that Bunuel sets out in its first chapter: “The portrait I offer will represent me, with my conclusions, doubts, repetitions, truths, and lies. In one word—my memory...
...also does not shy away from jumping to conclusions, making daring statements, and passing blunt judgments, which make this book refreshing and interesting. The chapter “Pros and Cons” is the perfect illustration of the clear line in Bunuel’s mind between “good and bad, right and wrong, beautiful and ugly...
Almost a year after the president of the Cambridge chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) compared the Cambridge Public Schools’ achievement benchmarks to an “apartheid educational system,” the benchmarks system has been revised and achievement gaps between minority and white students have narrowed, according to a district report released at a school committee meeting last night. The state now uses the Composite Performance Index (CPI), which measures, on a 100-point scale, how close the district has come to attaining proficiency for all students. When...