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...Every year, you host numerous actors and producers affiliated with these projects - and many of them, in the post-screening discussions, reflect on why the movie struggled to find support among audiences or distributors. Are there any common themes? Why do so many great films face difficulties in finding an audience...
...earlier this month that Fannie and Freddie were planning on paying out some $210 million in retention bonuses to 7,600 employers over the course of 18 months, lawmakers went haywire (Kellermann was pegged to receive a retention bonus of $850,000). "It's hard to see any common sense in management decisions that award hundreds of millions in bonuses when their organizations lost more than $100 billion in a year," Senator Charles Grassley said in a statement. Barney Frank, chair of the House Financial Services committee, wrote to Lockhart: "I am writing to urge strongly that you rescind...
...nearby? Alpine Strawberry or Antediluvian Chocolate? Nice. It seems like I can sit with anyone and just introduce myself. Four years of friendly classmates? I’ll take seconds! I can just casually bring up that stern lady who swiped us all in. We all have that in common! Easy introduction. It seems like all of the African-American students are at one table. This wasn’t in the folder! This wasn’t in the folder! How can I complete my group of multi-ethnic friends as seen in the admissions brochure? I head...
...past decade has launched us into a flourishing Information Age. Information is everywhere, from television to the Internet. At Harvard, it is common to see students walking alone, BlackBerries and iPhones in hand, seemingly oblivious to the world surrounding them. While easy access to information has clear positive effects, it has also removed us from the real world, making us excessively dependent on technology, unable to focus, and isolated from those around...
Onen was also appalled by how his paper was misused, noting that the conditions of his experiment subjects had little in common with those of the CIA program. "[The study subjects] were distracted from sleeplessness by playing different games or watching soccer matches. They could eat, drink, read and move about as they wished. [From] the American documents, we learn that sleep deprivation spanned from 70 to 120 hours - and set maximum limits of 180 hours for the hardest resisters, which is over a full week without sleep," Onen said. "In other words, they discuss starting the sleep deprivation process...