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...boys forage through garbage heaps, get hooked in by child-molesting Fagins and slip into lives of petty or flagrant crime, you'll be reminded of Pixote and City of God and Oliver Twist and a dozen Indian musical melodramas - which are more sanitized by far but display the same obsession for family ties and first love, and are just as unashamed in pushing feelings of joy and despair to the apogee of passion. Jamal's search for his long-lost lifetime love Latika is the stuff of Indian-pop films from the Raj Kapoor era to today. True...
Alan M. Dershowitz has been a professor at Harvard Law School since 1964, and he’s met his fair share of would-be presidents: a couple dozen from HLS, he estimates, and maybe three or four from the College. Most of them fit the same good-looking stereotype, Dershowitz said. They were always men, of course. “Very tall, chiseled face, you know, with a lot of gravitas.” “I think people used to look at themselves in the mirror and think, ‘I look presidential...
...Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. Curatorship of American Art was endowed in honor of Ted Stebbins by over a dozen of his friends and supporters...
...right National Democratic Party, which holds seats in several local parliaments, to be banned from German public life, as politicians across the country urge heightened vigilance against anti-Semitism. Some 800 anti-Semitic incidents have been recorded so far this year, resulting in injuries to more than two dozen people...
Lectures on distinguished artists are a dime a dozen, particularly at Harvard. But it’s rare for an expert to speak about an artist immediately after the artist herself has spoken. This was exactly what took place at the Harvard Ceramics Studio last Saturday when a lecture by Magdalene Odundo, a distinguished African ceramicist, was followed by History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies Professor Suzanne Blier’s talk about the significance of Odundo’s work in the intellectual and artistic community. “I’ve never...