Word: classness
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...also got money from the Office for the Arts, which I am a supporter of today. The grant gave me seed money to make this documentary and it instilled me with confidence that the project had validity. I made it in partnership with another student who was in my class. We sold it. I later got a job in L.A. as an assistant to the head of a movie studio...
...mentors is my former teacher, Robert Coles. There’s a huge poster in my office of Sawyer on “Lost” reading a Walker Percy novel, which I read in Coles' class, "Moral and Social Inquiry." The themes of that class permeated deeply into my writer’s brain. I took physics, and lo and behold, there’s a lot of physics in “Lost.” I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it’s been a chance...
Tickets were a whopping $175 per plate to the event, but in the spirit of the New Deal, some were made available for free to undergraduates on a first-come, first-serve basis. And true to Harvard College form, the event mixed high class with even higher class by inviting the Roosevelt Institute, a student group dedicated to progressive government policy, to help bring some undergraduate flair to the event...
That down-to-earth attitude is the product of Kitano's working-class background. A childhood math whiz and boxer (embodying the combination of brains and brawn for which his films are famous), he dropped out of university, eventually becoming a comic and actor. He began directing films in 1989, attributing his ensuing success as a filmmaker to what he saw as a "lack of self-discipline" in the Japanese film industry. "That has led them to suffer from [a director] like myself," he says, "a complete outsider." He applies similar self-deprecation to his painting. When he took...
...That goes for military deals. On Monday, Sarkozy confirmed that France was negotiating with Russia over the sale of four Mistral-class assault ships worth a total of about $2 billion - the first deal of its kind between a NATO member and Moscow. It's turning heads for other reasons too. A Russian admiral recently said the amphibious vessels - which can carry 15 helicopters or 70 armored vehicles - would have allowed Russia to complete its August 2008 invasion of Georgia in a matter of hours. Little wonder, then, that the deal has prompted deep concern among American defense officials...