Word: creation
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Rushmore, the idiosyncratic new comedy from Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket), is a film of wonderfully conceived characters. Reflecting their smart dedication to originally, Anderson and co-writer Owen Wilson have devised a colorful, eccentric cast in which two figures stand out as inspired creation. That first is Max Fisher (Jason Schwartzman), a gangly combination of braces, horn-rimmed glasses, greasy black hair and loads of smug self-assurance. A pupil at the posh, upper-crust Rushmore Academy, Max is a bright kid but a lousy student, mainly because he serves as the head of nearly two dozen extracurricular activities, ranging...
Knowles said the meeting of the "summer science group" to discuss improvements in science departments and the creation of new centers devoted to fields of science are the beginnings of change...
...million project will literally cap off the University's five-year, $2.1 billion Capital Campaign, now more than 90 percent complete with one year to go. The Campaign has provided for renovations to Memorial Hall, as well as the creation of Loker Commons and the Barker Center...
...Zbigniew Herbert. He is a serious poet, full of beauty that does not insult our modern post-atrocity sensibilities. A Polish poet born in 1950 who was active in his country's anti-Communist movement, Herbert died in 1998, leaving behind an oeuvre that begins with spare poems about creation, antiquity and art. He then continues those themes through increasingly pointed and readable poetry while also developing a strong form of the prose poem that mixes fairy tales, images from everyday life and an aphoristic style. The recently published posthumous collection Elegy for the Departure and Other Poems offers...
Knowles wrote that he hopes the creation of the Research Professor position--allowing professors to continue lab research under the aegis of Harvard for five years beyond retirement--will increase turnover in these departments...