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...would become prime minister of India, then I would care,” said Umang G. Bhatia ’08, on why he chose not to spend his evening watching the third presidential debate. “[The presidential election] is important, but I can’t really do anything, so I couldn’t care less...
...they seem so broad? Instead of establishing fixed standards for “green” buildings, as Duke has done, we chose instead to develop principles that would last throughout the next few generations as Harvard develops Allston. Under the guidance of students, faculty, and administrators, the specific indicators and goals can adapt to incorporate improved technologies and knowledge about sustainability, as well as the know-how of Harvard staff implementing the principles...
Filmed entirely in Afghanistan, September Tapes offers compelling evidence that claims of success there have been thoroughly fictionalized. Inexplicably, however, director Christian Johnston chose to fictionalize his exposé. The tapes chronicle the efforts of filmmaker Don Larson (George Calil) and his translator, Wali Zarif (Wali Razaqui) to record and possibly join the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The foibles in the fiction prompt a host of questions that distract from the substantive reflection that the film would otherwise promote. Johnston aims to debunk the myths of the Afghani situation, but should have realized that original footage...
...left in those whose lives are accelerating towards being no more. Avery is a physician; his prints depict his patients, sufferers of AIDS. Here each moment seems to be of an expanded worth, as is the moment that his stark woodcut portrait squelched into the paper-pulp he chose as medium and soaked up the blackness of intention. As in “I won’t be no beast of burden” (Avery, woodcut 1999), in the instantaneity of the print is suspended an infinite expression of stillness, sympathy and strength...
Still, many of the Grimm’s tales are “quite dull,” according to Tatar. Fables, peasant tales and bumpkins all represent “a culture [that] is sort of lost to us.” She chose the stories to include not only to reflect the breadth of subject matter, but also to appeal to her audience...