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...from Harvard; in 2006, 12 seniors will graduate with a Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) degree in film studies. With over 635 students currently enrolled in film classes, the subject’s popularity speaks for itself and, moreover, hints at a national and international trend sweeping the university circuit: recognition of the cultural, historical, and academic importance of film. The Film Studies at Harvard program, which has been under construction for several decades, was finally cemented last year. At one point Harvard, like many other established universities, struggled to accept film as a credible academic pursuit. Now, however...
...Potter”) also provides a fine caricature as the scheming nemesis, whose uses his fame to trick Logue’s Macklin into losing his job. As per the formula, Issac’s Johnnie Green and his Derek Lowe look-alike sidekick, Nick Allen, haunt the tennis circuit and play our heroes in the finals…which, of course, goes down to the final point. I won’t “spoil” the ending by giving it away. These highlights are not enough to interest the audience in the characters. The trite construction...
...Experts weren’t surprised that FAIR spurned the statutory argument, since Congress could just amend the law again. A Philadelphia attorney who had filed a brief supporting the government’s case, Howard J. Bashman, noted that FAIR had prevailed in the Third Circuit Court by arguing on free-speech, not statutory, grounds. Laurence H. Tribe ‘62, the Harvard professor who organized the filing of his colleagues’ friend-of-the-court brief, said their statutory argument appeared to be doomed yesterday. “It’s quite clear that...
...penalties for schools that violate the Solomon Amendment are enormous, and every wing of the university—not just the law school—would suffer. Harvard, for instance, would lose over $400 million a year in federal funds.Last November, a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Solomon Amendment’s provisions are so onerous that they could be viewed as a direct regulation. The panel cited a 1958 Supreme Court ruling that bars the federal government from attaching strings to a grant in order to “produce...
Experts weren’t surprised that FAIR spurned the statutory argument, since Congress could just amend the law again. A Philadelphia attorney who had filed a brief supporting the government’s case, Howard J. Bashman, noted that FAIR had prevailed in the Third Circuit Court by arguing on free-speech, not statutory, grounds...