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...Klaatu that produce more glop than useful information, a failure even to reference the earlier film's famous catch phrase ("Klaatu Barada Nickto," which essentially means, "Cool it, Gort" and which was on every 12-year-old's lips a little more than a half century ago), a cross-species romance between Klaatu and an earth woman (Jennifer Connelly) that was once rather touching and now registers somewhere between fatuous and nonexistent. But why bother? Suffice it to say that these morons have, quite simply, turned The Day the Earth Stood Still on its head and what's falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day the Earth Stood Still: Alienating | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...this situation, and set the two countries on several years of peace talks. These negotiations have come a long way, to the extent where Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari recently told a conference in India that he foresaw a future where Indians and Pakistanis could cross the border with a simple identification card. Neogtiations regarding three new trade routes, which promised to bring millions of dollars in commerce to each country, looked extremely promising in the days just before the Mumbai attacks. And, most ironically, Pakistan’s foreign minister was in Delhi on a diplomatic...

Author: By Hasan Siddiqi | Title: South Asia After Mumbai | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...that the new calendar had “a number of key advantages,” which were not limited to students’ mental health. He noted that having a longer winter break would cut energy costs, as well as coordinate academic calendars throughout the University so that cross registration would be easier. Staff added that the new calendar would also allow athletes to be in sync with the rest of their league. Staff credited Bok heavily with the reform, saying that his position as interim president allowed him to make this change with “minimal political...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Look Ahead to 2009 Calendar Change | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...your desk, and know exactly where your story will take you?JK: I sit down at my desk and I know it will be difficult in this way and difficult in that way. Every book has a different process. You think this person is going to get up and cross the room. That’s what I intend but sometimes, the room might be as long as the Sahara desert. 2. FM: As the Creative Writing thesis deadline approaches, what do you look for in a budding novelist?JK: I’m not really looking for anything...

Author: By Julia S Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Jamaica Kincaid | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...pilot run still persist.GROWING PAINSThe Freshman Seminar Program was introduced in the 1959-1960 academic year to provide first-years with the experience of small-group instruction by Harvard faculty members.Traditionally, the program offered 30 seminars each year. Since 2000, the program has grown exponentially and now provides a cross-sections of all disciplines and all Harvard schools.This year, the program offers 82 seminars in the fall term and 50 in the spring. These 132 courses mark the most that have ever been offered in one academic year. But this record-breaking number was paralleled this fall by a record...

Author: By Bita M. Assad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Program in Progress | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

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