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...palace. When he told the filmmaker his Miami hometown was more dangerous than Baghdad, "I followed that lead like you would as a journalist," says Gittoes. And what that led to is Rampage, the documentary that has its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival next week. In 103 fast-and-furious minutes, we meet Lovett's neighborhood of Brown Sub. It's Miami Vice without the pastel suits and palm trees, a no-go zone where AK-47s are the weapons of choice and violent crime runs rife. Gittoes' energetic camera records a life for the Lovett family...
...take third at the Howe Cup national tournament, as the Bulldogs exacted revenge with a 6-3 win in the semifinals. Still, the team was able to reclaim the Ivy crown, its 15th overall. “Hey, we won the Ivy title,” said captain Allison Fast after the Howe Cup. “At the beginning of the season we had two goals: first was Ivy title, second was national title. So we’re pleased with the way we did.” With a powerful one-two punch of freshman Lily Lorentzen...
...Corps (ROTC) programs that flourished on the campus. But despite Harvard’s vigorous ROTC program, the powerful anti-communist forces that were gaining increasing influence in American life were looking on the University with suspicion. Something of a watershed was reached when a student organization invited Howard Fast, a prolific author and a well-known American communist, to speak at one of its periodic forums. Fast was to debate Professor Edwin O. Reischauer (who later became U.S. ambassador to Japan) on the causes of the Korean War.The popular press exploded. Both major Boston newspapers attacked Harvard for permitting...
...significance. When we had to grow the corn and fight off predators, meals included a serving of gratitude. "It's like the American Indians. When they killed a deer, they said a prayer over it," says Fox. "That is civilization. It is an act of politeness over food. Fast food has killed this. We have reduced eating to sitting alone and shoveling it in. There is no ceremony...
...streak had to finally end, it’s just a shame to be a part of that.”The Crimson managed to keep the race relatively close, preventing the other crews from building an insurmountable advantage.“We haven’t been that fast out of the blocks, [so] we’ve been concentrating on trying to start fast early on, and I feel we did pretty well,” Kitovitz said. “We stayed with the other teams for most of the race; there weren’t more...