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WHAT THE BUZZ IS SAYING: That it is a movie Angelenos--who constitute the Academy's majority--perhaps like and identify with more than the rest of the country does. There's a sense of a little Crash boomlet beginning to crest on the West Coast. And that might cause a surprise on March...
DIED. PETER BENCHLEY, 65, author who made landlubbers of millions with his 1974 novel, Jaws, about a great white shark that terrorizes an East Coast resort town; of pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive scarring of the lungs; in Princeton, N.J. Benchley's tale of a human-chomping fish sold 20 million copies, and the 1975 film adaptation epitomized the summer movie experience. Fascinated by oceans throughout his life, the Harvard-educated grandson of humorist Robert Benchley in later years became an outspoken protector of sharks. "Knowing what I know now, I could never write that book today," Benchley wrote last month...
...Oren was breaking into a Gaza synagogue with a sledgehammer. At Emerson Hall last night, Oren, who is also a historian and a visiting lecturer at Harvard this spring, recounted the traumatic experience of dismantling Jewish settlements during the Gaza disengagement.The Gaza is a narrow strip on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea that—from 1967 until last August—was controlled by Israeli forces.But last August, Israel withdrew its troops from the Gaza and removed approximately 8,000 Jewish settlers from the territory.And last night, Oren transported a room of 60 Harvard students back...
Students who participated in an intersession trip to help the post-Hurricane Katrina reconstruction effort in the Gulf Coast joined community leaders from the sites they served in a crowded Lowell House dining hall last night to share photos and recount stories from the frontline. Over the course of a week, 80 students volunteered at four sites in New Orleans and across Mississippi on projects ranging from gutting houses to working with school children. “What struck me the most was the hope, the hope of the whole community,” said Jason...
...league by five games, only to be knocked off in the conference tournament and have some unworthy squad steal the NCAA bid?I look at this year as a perfect example of why it is necessary. The reasoning is simple. Consider the following two scenarios.The Quakers coast for the final five games of league play, get rusty, and fail to wake up until they trail a major conference team by 20 at the half.The Quakers stay focused for the final five games of league play, keep themselves sharp, and play a major conference team close.If the Ivies had a postseason...