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...movies had been just a mental transom the public was half-tired of peeking through. The next day the movies were a gap in the mind's defenses through which a roaring lion leaped and landed in the delighted moviegoer's lap. Spears and guns threatened his head, spiders walked on his face, beautiful girls reached alluringly from the screen. Then, just when a man's guard was up, came a roar of sound from the balcony, and, caught from behind and before, he was yanked into the screen and taken for a thrilling ride on a roller coaster...
...eight-year fundraising campaign at NYU—started in 2001—aims to raise $2.5 billion to close the gap between its current endowment of $1.5 billion and the large endowments of competitive peer private institutions such as Harvard. Six-hundred and fifty million dollars of this capital campaign will be allocated to increase financial...
...mated The Hulk with Ang Lee. Now Christopher Nolan, best known for his twisty art thriller Memento, gets a shot with Batman Begins. He says all he borrowed from the franchise was Batman himself, and even this Batman will be a mystery to fans. "I saw a small gap in pop-culture movie history," Nolan says, "the film where Batman explains his origin, the definitive account of his journey from Bruce Wayne to Batman. It's a unique opportunity to make a film about a character the audience knows and loves while doing a story that has never been told...
...senior civil servant or a think-tank person to put your finger on," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society, a Labour advocacy group. As the two men face tough choices this term on pensions, taxes, and benefits for the disabled, they can certainly bridge any gap between them - if they truly want...
...sanction travel to Spain—which has suffered a massive deadly political attack in the last year—but not to Jakarta, which has experienced no acts of terrorism in the same time-frame? Harvard claims commitment to broadening the international experience of her students, but the gap between administration rhetoric and policy could not be more apparent...