Word: circuitousness
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...video surveillance on their campus. As these cameras exist only to protect students from outsiders, HUPD should be more forthright about their use. Even a short paragraph on the Harvard website would suffice. Yale’s website, for instance, explains that the University uses closed-circuit television monitoring and that “security systems are monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.” Alternatively, HUPD could discuss its security procedures during Freshmen Orientation Week. No matter how the University decides to handle the situation, students deserve clear information about when, how, and why video...
...been able to. All of Panahi's films, including Offside, have been banned from public theaters in Iran. Denied an audience at home, Offside's fate is that of many Iranian films when they dare to question the status quo: it has become a hit on the international festival circuit and in Western art-house cinemas. But a funny thing happened on the way to the foreign box office. Offside was granted a screening at this year's Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran, which is organized by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Then, in advance of February...
...Still, Burstein says that security cameras outside are a “fairly common practice” at colleges. Yale University, for example, uses close circuit television monitoring as well, and “security systems are monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by the Yale University Security Central,” according to Yale’s website...
...life," he says, ever the boy who can't stop tinkering and dreaming. All the characters are cars, but they're engagingly human. The lands they inhabit are richly detailed (thanks to years of research by Lasseter, co-director Joe Ranft and their team) and worlds apart: the NASCAR circuit, where autos and egos collide at 180 m.p.h., and a 1950s-ish town, keeping a sense of community far from the superhighway rat race...
Owen Wilson voices Lightning McQueen (as in speed and Steve), the hottest rookie on the circuit, and doesn't he know it! He's got drive, heaven knows, but no perspective. Who needs friends, or a pit crew? He's a one-man show! Ka-chow! Lightning's main rivals in the movie's opening race are "the King" (racing legend Richard Petty), who's going for one last win before he retires, and a dirty-driving mug named Chick (Michael Keaton), who's so rotten that one of his sponsor decals reads htB, for Hostile Takeover Bank...