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...free of charge. For Magnolia, premiering Wang's film on YouTube provides a unique solution to an unusual challenge. Late last year, Wang was completing work on two films: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Princess of Nebraska, both adaptations of stories by Yiyun Li that focus on three generations of Chinese natives now living in America. Prayers, which was released in select art houses in September, tells the tale of an elderly father visiting his divorced daughter in America. Princess leaps forward a generation, depicting the challenges confronting a tech-savvy Chinese exchange student in Nebraska...
...experience to back that up,” lightweight captain Rebekah Kharrazi said. “We have confidence in what she’s designing for us. She has very high expectations [that] we’re ready for.”This season, the team will focus on its strengths: organization and consistency. Since the inception of the IRA’s to determine lightweight national champions, Radcliffe has finished in the top six 11 of 12 years. Coaches and personel have changed. Programs like Bucknell and Stanford are on the rise. But through all of the changes...
...Palestinian neighborhood in present-day Israel. Aljafari’s movie was one of the films featured prominently at the second annual Boston Palestine Film Festival, which took place this past weekend at the Harvard Film Archive and other venues around Boston. “This year the focus was on the 60th anniversary of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe when Palestine was divided, over 500 villages were destroyed or emptied out, and the biggest and longest current refugee situation was created,” said Salma Abu Ayyash, a member of the organizing committee for the festival. The Nabka...
Unlike a traditional Core class, Kuriyama’s assignments focus on communication and technology, rather than writing papers. For Xu’s final project, he chose to make an film about the history of tai chi. “If it’s not a way of hurting people and not a way of meditating, how do we define what’s tai chi?” Xu said. “How many ways do you see different manifestations of the tai chi symbol?” He said the process got him thinking about...
...structural weakness of McCain's position was evident every time Obama described a program - health care, education, energy - in the third debate. cnn's focus group of independent Ohioans would send the dials on their electric gizmos spinning into the stratosphere. They loved the idea that government would spend more on education or energy or regulate the health-insurance companies. They also loved the idea that government should do this carefully - McCain's best moment was when he described how he'd cut waste. But McCain always looked as if he were a kernel of corn about...