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...BLAKE FOSTER...
...national platform in 2004 around “eight words”— “war in Iraq, cut taxes, no gay marriage”—the Democrats didn’t lay out a clear and purposeful agenda. He wrote his book to foster discussion and debate among the Democratic Party and better prepare it for the 2008 presidential election. “Seventy-five percent of this [2006] election was a referendum on George Bush,” he said. “In 2008, we won’t have George Bush...
...further bridging the gap between Harvard and the West Coast based entertainment industry. Future “Harvardwood Presents . . .” events, to take place at least once or twice a semester, could feature on-campus talks by casting directors and other professionals. In addition, Harvardwood hopes to foster student screenwriting with its second annual Harvard Screenplay Competition, which offers competitors a cash prize reward and exposure to agents and directors. According to Malik, Harvardwood has already been successful in accomplishing these aims. “As for Harvardwood...
...pleased to have his creative input. So the musical version of The Harder They Come, as adapted by Perry Henzell and directed by Kerry Michael and Dawn Reid, opened last March at Stratford's 460-seat Theatre Royal, a plush Victorian-era playhouse with a modern mission to foster black and community productions. Against expectations, the musical's short-run became a word-of-mouth success and broke all their box office records, so now the show is being restaged there as a tribute to the late director but also with an eye on making the journey from the East...
...January issue of Pediatrics. In that study, researchers found that children burned three times as many calories playing "active" video games versus playing traditional hand-held video games. Because the study was done before the Wii debuted, researchers tested Sony's EyeToy and Microsoft's Xbox. But Lorraine Lanningham-Foster, the report's lead researcher, expects the Wii to have the same effect. "If children are up moving around versus sitting down, then they're going to burn more calories," she says...