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What was your first job? I don't remember what the word is in English, but you know those things they put around babies' necks when they eat? A bib? Those things. But the ad is still on, to this day. It's really weird. They're still using that, 23 years later...
...screen the results can be movie-magical. Among the stop-motion marvels are Willis O'Brien's King Kong; the mythical creatures molded and manipulated by Ray Harryhausen in pictures like Jason and the Argonauts and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger; those endearing English eccentrics in Nick Park's Chicken Run and the Wallace and Gromit shorts; the sprightly ghouls of Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas...
Khan was placed under house arrest in 2004 after he appeared on Pakistani state television to issue a teary-eyed confession. In that midnight appearance, speaking in English, he said he claimed sole responsibility for his actions. The next day, then President Musharraf pardoned the father of the country's nuclear program, citing his status as a national hero for establishing Pakistan as the first Muslim nuclear state and sparing him the indignity of a trial and imprisonment. Islamabad has since repeatedly rebuffed all calls from the IAEA and Washington to question Khan, saying that it has passed...
...different sense of understanding the world.” Ma’s participation in the event is a continuation of his involvement in the arts at Harvard as an undergraduate and with the Task Force, and as the inspiration for Greenblatt’s “English 127: A Silk Road Course: Travel and Transformation on the High Seas: An Imaginary Journey in the Early 17th Century” and Harvard’s other Silk Road courses. Ma’s Silk Road Project brings together musicians from all over the world and influenced these courses, which...
...people in Hollywood who hasn’t sacrificed his education for his career,” said Hasty Pudding Theatricals Press and Publicity Manager Talisa B. Friedman ’10. Franco graduated from UCLA this spring with a degree in English and is currently working toward an MFA at Columbia University. Hasty Pudding producers Pierce E. Tria ’10 and Charlotte E. Twaalfhoven ’10 will roast Franco at New College Theatre Friday evening before presenting the actor with the traditional “Pudding Pot.” Friedman said she expected...