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Over the past two years, the Office of the Dean has been working to foster more inter-House, campus-wide interaction and communication. The House Committees now meet with each other every month, and the College held its first campus-wide welcome back party, Harvard State Fair, this fall...
...active in some way to address the social issues that foster criminal behavior, such as: lack of self-esteem or hope in some segments of our society, poverty, lack of health care (particularly mental health care), lack of education, and family dysfunction...
...know what you’re thinking—Jodie Foster running franticly through a tightly confined space, driven only by a furious maternal instinct to protect her daughter: I saw this one already, back when it was called “Panic Room.” Well, maybe, but that’s not reason enough to skip “Flightplan,” especially since the formula’s been retooled and improved upon...
...modern Hitchcockian thriller with style and grace, “Flightplan” is set in a not-so-distant future ruled by streamlined aesthetic minimalism. The film begins in a stark, frozen Berlin where Kyle Pratt (Foster), an emotionally drained aeronautical engineer, boards a luxurious double-decker airplane. Accompanied by her traumatized young daughter, Julia (Marlene Lawston), Kyle is traveling to New York to return the body of her husband, who died unexpectedly under suspicious circumstances...
...Foster, channeling the role that she honed in “Silence of the Lambs,” radiates the taut energy and strained composure of a woman possessed, teetering capriciously on the brink of her own sanity. However, Foster occasionally overshoots the intensity of her performance, and the earnestness of her emoting occasionally borders on the hyper-frantic: she clenches her jaw a little too tightly and relies a bit too heavily on her staple big-eyes-welling-up-with-tears expressions...