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...rock and rubble contains too many screams, tears, and fireballs to feel genuine.The real drama develops from the grief experienced by the men’s wives. Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaa’s portrayals of suffering provide the most sincere emotional punch in the film. In stark contrast, the men’s episodes of torment are so repetitive and exasperating that they destroy the verisimilitude Stone and his screenwriter Andrea Berloff establish in the precious moments prior to the towers’ collapse.In “United 93,” on the other hand, writer/director Paul...
...leading discussions, visiting classes, and interacting with students. Whitman is already scheduled to speak at the Kennedy School Forum. “I plan to make myself as available as I can be,” Whitman said. Visiting fellows usually address a wide variety of topics, in contrast to the resident fellows, who reside at Harvard for the entire semester and tend to focus on one topic, according to Burns. ”We pack a huge number of events into those days,” Burns said. “We try to match them up with...
...obvious conflict between the race of the commenter and the word itself, but because up until that point, no one—neither the professor nor any other student—had referred to the slave that way. [CORRECTION APPENDED] Once the initial shockwave subsided, a scene in stark contrast to the brochure photo came into focus: A set of black students leering in suspicion, frustration, and anger at a white student who was apparently oblivious to his grave error. Recognizing the rapidly changing climate of the room, our professor explained that a certain degree of “tension?...
...Such sentiments may be gathering support across the country. In Ohio, Republican candidate for governor J. Kenneth Blackwell drew boos in a gubernatorial debate in Akron when he said that publicly funded charter schools were good for the overall educational system. By contrast, his Democratic opponent, Ted Strickland, drew thunderous applause when he stated: "About $500 million, I believe, was taken out of our public system to fund underperforming charter schools last year. I think that's a waste of resources - for-profit charter schools trouble me greatly...
...exhibit ranges from portraits to cityscapes to glimpses into the studio life. Cassatt's severe and pensive mother makes a showing in drab black dress, a prim contrast to Thomas Hovenden's slumped self-portrait (1875). But the star of the show is John Singer Sargent's notorious Madame X (1884), herself an American transplant who moved to Paris as a child, and who, like her expat painter, would always be an outsider in her adopted city.