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...Harvard women’s water polo team traveled to Princeton, N.J., this weekend for the Eastern Division Championship. The eighth-seeded Crimson (11-15) dropped all three of its contests en route to a last-place finish. Although the results were not in Harvard’s favor, the weekend was a successful one for a Crimson squad that is in the unusual position of returning its entire roster next year. “You can’t grow fast—you have to go through experience in order to get experience,” head coach...
...know people who hated Jack Valenti, or rather hated the ratings system he created and sustained. Kirby Dick's documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated makes a good case for the prejudice the MPAA showed in favor of major-studio product and against the more adventurous indies. Francis Coppola once said that all of modern cinema, from art films to blockbusters, uses only about 5% of the medium's potential artistic vocabulary. We may need another revolution - not of content but of the means of distribution - to allow filmmakers to explore the other...
...video’s outset, director Sean Wainsteim matches the video’s imagery to the song’s lyrics. As lead singer Dave Monks sings, “Do your neighbor a favor / Collect their morning paper / And clip out all the sad bits, no one wants to read that,” the middle-aged man confusedly examines a newspaper that has parts...
...half the voters who in 2002 gave Jean-Marie Le Pen an 18% score. In the runoff Sarkozy will count on the rest plus Bayrou voters who share his focus on economic liberalization and cutting debt. Royal will pit her softer image against Sarkozy's tougher style. The odds favor Sarkozy, but the race is too close to call...
...expressed needs for change.” Petersen’s letter cites the results of the referendum recently conducted by the UC, during which 2,914 students—constituting 43.4 percent of the undergraduate population and 84 percent of those voting—cast their lot in favor of a calendar configuration that would put fall exams before Christmas, lengthen winter break, and end the school year a week and a half earlier than at present. Bok did not downplay the results of the referendum in an e-mailed statement to The Crimson a few days...