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...first assignment for students in Gohlke's section is to photograph things that remind them of home. Students are then asked to find a place that makes them uncomfortable and convey in photographs exactly what makes them feel uneasy. Other assignments include photographing a place they had never visited before and taking a roll of 36 exposures in their own rooms...
...that spoke 36 dialects and languages into a working set, using townspeople as extras in many of the scenes. Bodrov found a star in one of them, the twelve-year old Valentine Fedotova, who plays Vania's protector, the daughter of his captor. Silent at first, her incredible eyes convey innocence while her daily life conveys drudgery. With her mother dead, she is the woman of the house, the cook, the cleaner, the farmer and the care-taker. She cannot help but care for the boy Vania, whom she enchants with dance, jingling bells, bread and kindness, a rare commodity...
...considering the significant changes in student life as a reporter and editor for this newspaper over three years. I've noticed that one theme invariably emerges. Even though Harvard students are clearly some of the most responsible young adults in our society, the administration is increasingly making decisions that convey two related, paternalistic messages. First, students cannot be trusted to manage their own affairs. Second, administrators in University Hall are better judges of what students want and need than are the students themselves...
...with information about the candidates and their platforms, so that they can make well-informed and well-thought-out decisions. The media has, by default, become the link between the candidates and the people. Without television, radio and newspapers, those running for office would find it incredibly difficult to convey their message and make themselves known to the people...
...seeming newness, however, the marriage between technology and religion is an ancient one. Man has always used state-of-the-art communications technology to convey his deepest thoughts. Five thousand years ago, the Sumerians etched their fears and hopes in cuneiform. Centuries later, the Egyptians glorified Ra on papyrus scrolls. The Old Testament was hewed and edited in the 1st century A.D., when the scrolls were turned into primitive books called codices. Forced for the first time to assign to the Holy Story a beginning, middle and end, Christian and Hebrew scholars took different paths--creating a schism that endures...