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TUESDAY Screening of “Don’t Burn It” Northwest Labs B103, 7:30 p.m. Presented by the Harvard Vietnamese Association, this documentary is about a female Vietnamese doctor whose diaries survived the Vietnam War. The film’s director will lead a discussion afterwards...
...drunk driving than about math or science. And then there's the general confusion that often comes from dealing with a bureaucracy as byzantine as the typical American school district. "There are parents who are just not as well informed about the way schools work," says Karen Mapp, director of the Education Policy and Management Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. "The policies, the procedures, what state test scores mean - it's not that they don't care; they just don't know how." (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
While Toronto festival co-director Cameron Bailey is optimistic that by year's end money spent to acquire 2009 TIFF films will be comparable to that of prior years, others say he's dreaming. "Usually there would be one film that came close to a double-digit million-dollar sale, if not hitting that," says Ted Hope, a 20-year veteran indie-film producer whose credits include 21 Grams and The Ice Storm. "Then you would have four or five films in that $4-to-$6 million range and four to seven films in that $1-to-$3 million range...
...will be a tricky issue that is likely to polarize everybody," Dr. Nicholas Muraguri, director of the National AIDS/STI Control Program, tells TIME. "But what we are saying is that we cannot as a country socially exclude these groups and hope that we will win the war against HIV at the same time." (See TIME's pictures of the crisis in Kenya...
...Some of us have gone to a public-health facility and if the doctor realizes we are gay, they will draw attention to us, even from the reception, calling people, 'Come and see a gay person, come and see a gay person,' " says Peter Njane, director of the Ishtar MSM gay-health-rights group in Nairobi. Muraguri's NASCOP group, which will lead the survey with funding from the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, says those beliefs must not be allowed to impede the country's efforts to fight...