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Last night, Howard A. Zucker, an Institute of Politics visiting fellow and the former assistant director-general of the World Health Organization, led an interactive question and answer session on modern health policy. “I don’t want this to have a lecture format,” Zucker said with a smile at the beginning of the session, who added that he preferred to encourage question-driven talk in order to address student perspectives and queries. Discussion ranged from global and national health policy issues to Zucker’s personal perspective in these fields...
...most waves these days is a new online outlet cleverly named theOutnet.com. Opened to the public on April 16, theOutnet - the latest hot spot created by net-a-porter.com founder Natalie Massenet - had 150,000 visitors register prior to the official launch. "With our fashion-forward approach, edited selection and chic format, we will continue to provide savvy shoppers with something new at a great price," says Stephanie Phair, director of theOutnet.com...
...When Harris relayed news of the delay, the committee had not finalized the preferred format, let alone written a proposal, Armitage said. The only thing that was decided, he said, was that the great books courses would count toward some of the Gen Ed categories—perhaps two, possibly four of them...
...also save one slot each year for a 70mm screening. Is the 70mm format something that studios have overlooked? Which 70mm screening has impressed you most, over the life of your festival...
...70mm is a glorious visual spectacle. As movie theaters have grown smaller, so have the movies they show. IMAX is glorious, but the company is now expanding into multiplexes without true IMAX screens, and often using digital instead of their own 70mm format. Some of our great moments: Patton, Oklahoma! in Todd-AO 70mm, Lawrence of Arabia, and of course 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL 9000 notes in the film that he was born "in the computer lab in Urbana, Illinois." The restored Virginia Theater uses a vast, beautiful screen...