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...been as wonderfully unsexy as in Filipino director Brillante Mendoza’s thoroughly engaging drama “Serbis.” Rather than exposing the unseen underworld of the sex-for-sale industry, the film—shot in Tagalog with English subtitles—explores the complex moral conflicts that all-too-guilty pleasures cause in a country like the Philippines, itself conflicted by the secular influences left by decades as a Western territory on its actively religious tradition. Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and showing...
...overbearingly so. There is a fine line between being finicky and being cerebral, and the artists tread this divide very carefully. One more spool of yarn or one more stroke on the clock-face, and the additions would have been a bit too deliberate.Though the installation is thoughtfully complex and utilizes its environment effectively, the separate components of the installation are not clearly demarcated. The lack of a traditionally defined area for the art divorces the work from its audience, who very easily could overlook parts of the installation. The ebony clock frame, for instance, hangs quietly on the wall...
...arts facilities and sweeping changes to the undergraduate curriculum and graduate programs. Yet with a projected 30 percent decline in endowment value by the end of June, Harvard administrators are slashing budgets and curtailing University activities—including a slowdown in construction of the much-touted science complex in Allston. These cuts raise concerns about the possible implementation of the committee’s grand yet vague proposals.“When reports come out and call for very complicated and ambitious changes, there’s an extremely strong temptation to let things sink to the bottom...
...easy to remember: 1-800-ACS-2345. The letters stand for the American Cancer Society, and dialing the number takes you to the ACS's National Cancer Information Center in Austin, Texas. The call center fields about a million calls a year, offering answers questions both simple and complex, from "Where can I get help with transportation when I can't drive to chemo appointments?" to "How do I find insurance if my illness forces me to quit...
...accumulating co-pay costs. Some, having been forced by illness to stop working, must struggle to keep their employer-sponsored coverage through COBRA rules. Others are looking for access to sometimes pricey state-funded high-risk pools, and 72% of the callers are simply uninsured. So intense and complex is the insurance issue that in 2004 the ACS launched the Health Insurance Assistance Service (HIAS) within the call-center operations. Made up of a small group of specialists, the HIAS fields questions about insurance, both private and state, and helps patients navigate the system. (See stories of cancer survivors...