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...would be foolish to pretend we won't do any environmental damage. You do a project as big as this, you cause environmental damage. Fact!" says Peter Goldston, a booming-voiced Australian who is technical director of Nam Theun Power Co., the consortium building the project. "But our project allows us to mitigate some of the damage." Goldston, 61, has worked on seven dam projects in Australia, Cambodia and the Philippines, dating back to 1966. "We did some terrible things during that time, no doubt about it," Goldston says. "But times have changed, so we have had to change...
That's a lot of work for a guy whose specialty is acting stupid. "A lot of people play dumb people," says The Office's executive producer Greg Daniels. "But Steve has a way of playing intelligent, articulate people who make foolish choices. People who on the face of it seem smart but once you look deeper have no clue. Which is cool for comedy that's more subtle." Carell is helped along by a Midwestern retro-adult face, made not so much for comedy as it is for telling people to get back to work. He's clever enough...
Wednesday, March 9. Foolish Wives (US, 1921). 9 p.m., Harvard Film Archive. Tickets $8; students and seniors, $6. Tickets available at Harvard Film Archive...
Advocates of public decency have a way of making themselves look foolish in the unforgiving, if often capricious, hindsight of the academy. And great works of literature have a way of offending public sensibilities. Note the many points of intersection between “banned books” lists and “great books” courses. Before Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, there is James Joyce’s Ulysses. Well before either come Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, all of which were banned...
Furthermore, it is important that first-year students are taught about these organizations through official channels. Beyond becoming aware of the mere existence of these organizations at Harvard, more information needs to be transmitted about them from the minute students set foot on campus. It is foolish to deny that these clubs, and their dangers, exist. First-year students need to be aware of the potential pitfalls in joining same-sex organizations and in attending parties thrown by the organizations. It is important that they do not continue to remain shrouded in mystery and secrecy, and thus it is imperative...