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...another report stalled—showed signs of promise when a draft was released in October and when a final version was released in February. Finally, it seemed, the general education requirements for Harvard undergraduates would be endowed with a uniting principle. Gone would be the days of the extant Core’s cornucopia of obscurities, masquerading as “modes of inquiry” somehow relevant and necessary to our liberal education. No more “Lit & Arts B-48: Chinese Imaginary Space.” No more “Science B-57: Dinosaurs...
...country’s problems. Despite Iran’s difficulties, its people are strongly connected to their country and will not “let Iran become another Iraq,” Ebadi said. She emphasized that Iranians must themselves fight against Iran’s extant patriarchal culture. Ebadi further commented on the U.S.’s role on the international stage, criticizing U.S. opposition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the country’s refusal to sign the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Because...
...silent films, in black-and-white. But not the '20s of Hollywood features, with their pearly visual sophisticated and the actors' elegant miming. Really, Bettie's films have the feel of the first Edison documentaries, when the camera recorded ordinary events with ethnographic avidity. In most of the extant Klaw movies, all Bettie does is dance...
...that in 1941; we realize it today, as the world celebrates her centenary. There's a knowing, sumptuously illustrated book (Mark Vieira's Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy), a tribute in films and photographs at New York City's Scandinavia House, a monthlong retrospective of all her extant Hollywood films on Turner Classic Movies (TCM), a 10-disc DVD collection (Garbo: The Signature Collection) and a fine documentary (Kevin Brownlow and Christopher Bird's Garbo, which can be found on TCM and in the DVD set). A first look at her classics--Flesh and the Devil and A Woman...
...hero takes any interest in the commercial side of the matter, it is that the circumstances have him sitting in the only F-20 extant (two other prototypes crashed; a fourth is under construction). Not one has been sold. In his head, he is going "Vrrroom-vrrroom...