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...evolved into: Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the brilliant psychiatrist who murdered people and ate them. In 2003, the American Film Institute chose his screen incarnation, by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, as the No. 1 villain in Hollywood history. (Clarice Starling, the FBI agent played by Jodie Foster in Silence, was named the top female movie hero. But that was due to either affirmative action or gilt by association.) The AFI also chose Hannibal's description of how his disposed of one of his victims - "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti...
...vision for the next one hundred and fifty. The idealism of uncountable students who first came to this campus in hopes of changing the world has been crushed by the despotic Web site. A framework needs to be created that will solve the immediate problems yet foster a feeling of contentment throughout the undergraduate community...
...Sophie C. Kargman ’08 also turns in a solid performance as a foster mother facing failure in “Autobahn,” the eponymous final piece of the play. Like many of the other actors, Kargman’s performance occasionally lacks momentum, seeming to ramble for long periods without character development. Nonetheless, Kargman brings a strong personality to her role that makes it comically superficial, yet ultimately deeply poignant...
...John Hancock Tower—an iconic building, but an engineering disaster.This trend is on the verge of reversal, however, with major expansion projects underway at the MFA, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Harvard’s own Fogg Museum, bringing projects by superstar architects Norman Foster and Renzo Piano to Boston for the first timeBut if there are several developments on the horizon, the ICA is the crown jewel in the city’s architectural tiara. Many in the art world have high hopes that the new Institute will play a major role in turning Boston into...
...Asians be penalized because of this value? By limiting their numbers in schools, educational administrators, in effect, are sending this signal. In the end, bringing the issue of inequality to a successful conclusion via affirmative action is difficult. One can view affirmative action—a policy to help foster diversity and address previous inequality—as harmful depending on one’s perspective. On one hand, it can serve to divide those considered a “minority” to fight among themselves for limited resources or opportunities, thus preserving the power for those who have...