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...experienced and critically-acclaimed film director. Green was present at the HFA to screen a number of his films, including the newly released “Snow Angels,” and to answer questions from the audience. Green’s directorial technique is marked by its frequent use of the Southern Gothic style. “Snow Angels,” however, is unique in his corpus. Set in the northern United States, the film is a plot-driven story about adult relationships, rather than the coming-of-age narratives that characterize his other films. While Green wrote...
...What was clerking for Thurgood Marshall like? CRS: It was an adventure. There was frequent drama because there were cases involving abortion, voting rights, the meaning of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and more. Marshall himself was larger than life—not self-important. He was full of amazing stories about presidents and civil rights leaders and great figures in American history—many of whom he actually knew, such as the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. Marshall was one of the world’s best storytellers and I would say that every...
...eight or nine games, but the number dropped to three by his junior season.“That’s not too good for a club that is supposed to be more of a legit team,” says Segal, citing his team’s frequent seven a.m. practices as evidence of their serious attitude towards athletic success. DEVELOPING BODIESThe JV teams that have turned over are also noticing that a significant change in atmosphere comes along with their new titles. Segal says that he found club “a lot less formal...
...temperatures increase, and hotter, drier summers become the norm in regions that were once temperate, powerful heat waves - like the one in Europe in 2003, which killed an estimated 35,000 people - will take a toll. At the same time, climate models suggest that rain could become less frequent overall but more intense when it does fall, leading to a double whammy. Longer and fiercer droughts in some areas will worsen hunger, but severe rainstorms carry an increased risk of water-borne diseases like cholera. "It's not just warming, it's climate change," says Patz. "It's changing...
...affection the unruly passions of youth," he said Monday in Meridian, Miss., where he once helped organize an off-base toga party - the furniture swapped out for mattresses - for his military buddies and some local girls. On Tuesday, he returned to his Virginia high school to announce that his frequent disobedience earned him the nickname "worst rat." (He used to sneak away to hop a bus to Washington, D.C., for the burlesque houses and bars.) On Wednesday morning, he stood outside the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., where he spoke of his "nocturnal sojourns" beyond those school's walls...