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...verses its technological implications, the death of some influential film figures went relatively unnoticed. One of the seminal directors of the French New Wave, Éric Rohmer, passed away on January 11, leaving behind a large body of films, many of which were organized in series around common problems of morality and relationships. If you share the conviction of Gene Hackman’s character in “Night Moves” that a Rohmer film is “kind of like watching paint dry,” you might do better to pay your respects...
...first observation was that there was not a thing in common among these people apart from race,” remarks Scanlan on first meeting the students, Yet one of the main missions of Code Switch 7 is to evoke the individual—and highly personal—matter of dealing with racial issues. The common experience of being black at the A.R.T. provided them with an initial starting point. “It’s really isolating, because our class is very homogenous and we’re such a minority,” Brewster says...
Harvard and University Health Services can counter the stigma many students feel by gently emphasizing during their yearly campaigns that these disorders are increasingly common, increasingly treatable, and most importantly, people want to help you overcome these problems. UHS has services to cater to every issue, including individual and group counseling sessions, as well as many weekly mental and physical health seminars given by various doctors of both the M.D. and Ph.D variety. These programs are excellent but hardly ever heard about. Peer counseling groups may do well to make their presence better felt by holding information sessions or other...
...improbable, must be the truth,” and proceeds to deduce the unlikely origins of the film’s villain. In the second movie, our hero foils a sinister assassination plot involving large quantities of poison gas, using primarily his fists. Though many would recognize these common cinematic tropes, few would suspect that the first film is J.J. Abrams’s reinvention of “Star Trek,” while the second is Guy Ritchie’s reimagining of “Sherlock Holmes.” This juxtaposition highlights how far these blockbusters...
...Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, shot to death in nearby Dearborn, Mich., by FBI agents last Oct. 28, was an African-American felon with an apparent penchant for stolen goods and a far-fetched wish to establish a Shari'a state on American soil. The two had nothing in common other than being Muslims. And yet with the release Monday, Feb. 1, of Abdullah's autopsy, their cases continue to haunt one of metropolitan Detroit's few successful communities. The immigrants who have made this America's largest Muslim community now fear they may face the scrutiny they endured for years...