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...minutes, however, taint what had been a poignant film adaptation up to that point. The revelatory final scene is simply a diluted version of the novel. Ironically, it is the film’s devotion to the text that causes it to miss the text’s most crucial aspect: self-reflexivity. With creative changes, Wright could have retained that medium-specific main point. Why, for instance, didn’t he envision Briony as a budding film director or screenwriter? While this change would have altered the novel’s plot, it would have faithfully realized McEwan?...
...Lloyd Thacker, the groups’s executive director. Additionally, Harvard faculty members have contributed to the group’s efforts. “While many informed persons mutter about the inequities and wrong-headedness of the current college admissions procedure, almost no one has taken the crucial step from complaint to constructive action,” wrote education professor Howard E. Gardner ’65 in an endorsement posted on the group’s Web site. “I hope that many schools will join Lloyd Thacker’s efforts to create an admissions...
...these objects, the gift included materials like brushes, paints, models, and preliminary works that once belonged to the influential Abstract Expressionist artist Barnett Newman. Fragments of his paintings—stiff canvases with strips of red, green, and blue—sit in brown boxes in the Straus Center, crucial keys to Newman’s creative past. Newman made a name for himself with bold blocks of color and vertical lines, which he termed zips. His paitnings often had punning and provocative titles, like the series “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue...
...must import workers if it is to remain the world's second-largest economy. And so the deluge of highly educated Chinese is challenging Japan to re-evaluate its attitude toward foreigners - particularly those who hail from what was once dismissed as a communist backwater but today is crucial to Japan's economic prospects. In 2004, trade between the two countries reached $205 billion, with China for the first time overtaking the U.S. as Japan's largest trading partner. With their bilingual skills and transnational degrees, Japan's new class of Chinese immigrants is poised to profit from this...
...forfeited in previous seasons. With junior co-captain Louis Caputo and sophomore J. P. O’Connor anchoring the lineup at 184 and 149, respectively, the Crimson will be looking to see exactly how it stacks up in dual-meet competition. Harvard’s performance will be crucial in evaluating how much of a contender it will be for the Ivy title, which Cornell has had a monopoly over in recent years.—TONY D. QIAN