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...violence is a perfect counterpoint to the innocent quality of the love between two children, and when these two elements are set against each other, as they so often are, the film fires on all cylinders. The film would have been almost perfect had Alfredson chosen to focus solely on the romance at its center. As it is, there are needless sub-plots—most of them focusing on the adult inhabitants of Eli and Oskar’s world—which are somewhat distracting. Early in the film, the focus is shared between the children...
...claims. The proceedings were so covert that the Administrative Board was unaware of the trial until after it occurred. The court files from the committee sat in an unopened box in archives until 2002. Van Devere documents the story of these marginalized men, but he is not seeking to focus criticism on Harvard specifically. “This is not a denouncement of the University or the administration at all. In many ways what occurred on campus is representative of an entire social epoch. What happened here could have happened at any other university,” he says. Christopher...
...suppression of apostasy, or religious disaffiliation, with the growth of Orthodox politics in Yemen was the focus of a talk given yesterday by Stacey Philbrick Yadav, a visiting scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies...
CMES Director Steven C. Caton, who organized the lecture series, said he was excited to have Yadav deliver the lecture, called "Harnessing Apostasy: Excommunicative Discourse and Opposition Politics in Yemen," particularly because political science experts who focus on the Middle East are a rarity at Harvard...
...stage for what turned out to be a rocky first year in office. Whereas Clinton put most of his early efforts into picking a diverse Cabinet that he said would look like America - and required three attempts to come up with a female Attorney General - Obama will initially focus on building his White House operation, much as Ronald Reagan did in 1980. Cabinet appointments are likely to begin coming by the end of the month, which is still early by recent historical standards. But Podesta says Obama intends to make the White House the locus of policy formulation and decision...