Word: contently
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...this weekend. “Doubt,” which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005, tells the story of an abusive priest named Father Flynn, who is accused by Sister Aloysius of sexually abusing a student. Wright cites the play’s relevance and powerful thematic content as the primary reasons behind her decision to direct it this semester. “Even though this play is about the Catholic priest scandal, it is a debate play as well about ‘Old’ Catholicism and ‘New’ Catholicism because Sister Aloysius...
...Hunters, bushrangers and soldiers wore kangaroo and possum skins and copied the Aborigines' moccasins, trying native foods and Aboriginal bush-burning techniques. Within two years of settlement, convicts were living in the bush year-round. Ejected from their homeland before the Industrial Revolution, they had simple expectations and were content to survive as nomadic hunters and shepherds. Nowhere else in the British Empire, says Boyce, "did the British adapt so quickly to the environment." Their dealings with Aborigines swung between cordial and violent, but there was little of the slaughter that was to come...
...books, photographs, and other historical artifacts and make them accessible to individuals around the world, including people not affiliated with Harvard. The program—led by HUL Associate Director Barbara S. Graham and archivist Megan Sniffin-Marinoff—catalogs material based on subject matter and historical content. Sniffin-Marinoff described the plan as a counterpart to the Google Books project, which is working with HUL to digitize all of Harvard’s shelved books and manuscripts. Prior projects digitized as part of the Open Collections Program include “Women Working...
...it’s affecting the community as well,” said FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin, who graduated from the Law School in 1993.Speakers discussed how the FCC should interpret the commission’s 2005 policy statement, which protects consumers’ rights to access Internet content, run applications, and connect legal devices of their choice, as well as to choose among network and application providers. “Our job is to decide where to draw the line between discrimination and reasonable network management,” said FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps.Recently, broadband provider Comcast?...
...opportunity to run wild with the refined amateurism that resulted in the high points of his last film, 2006’s “The Science of Sleep.”The victim of an electrical accident, Mike’s sudden magnetism promptly erases the content of every video cassette in his best friend Mos Def’s struggling neighborhood video store. In a race against time and good economic sense, Black and Def begin introducing customers to their own low-budget versions of classic movies that the pair shoot in Black’s junkyard.Gondry often...