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...comes the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, keepers of the Golden Globe Awards, to remind Hollywood that there is a middle way between ornery independent films and the mindless mainstreamers: the period romantic drama. Atonement, from the Ian McEwen novel about a love affair betrayed in posh 1930s England, received seven nominations, more than any other film, in the Globe list made public today. It's still OK, the HFPA said, to have an elevated, old-fashioned cry at the movies...
University President Drew G. Faust refuted reports today that suggested she was broadly rethinking aspects of the largest campus expansion in Harvard history. Faust’s comments came after The Boston Globe published a page-one story today titled “Harvard rethinks Allston.” The article stated that key parts of the Allston vision, including plans to build four undergraduate dorms and relocate the Graduate School of Education and the School of Public Health across the river, will be reviewed by Faust.“It’s not a reversal. It?...
Parent can now be considered a full-fledged fashion guru. He was recognized as one of the 25 most stylish Bostonians by The Boston Globe and has hobnobbed with execs at Gucci North America during his summer internship with the Italian fashion giant...
...White House to accept it on his behalf. Dr. Biscet unfortunately couldn’t be there; he spent another day as a Cuban prisoner of conscience, locked in a wretched cell. Before accepting his father’s award, Yan Valdes Morejon emphasized in a Boston Globe editorial that his father’s suffering has not diminished. Biscet has lost nearly 40 pounds and most of his teeth. Castro refuses to release Biscet, despite appeals from the United Nations and international human rights organizations...
...interregnum of Oliver Cromwell and the rise of Puritan rule in Britain. One of the first orders was to ban all theater, viewed as a wicked pastime of the corrupted Crown. In 1642, Shakespeare’s beloved “wooden O”—The Globe Theater—was closed. But by 1660, the Puritan government had collapsed and Charles II took the throne, ushering in the Restoration and a renaissance in the dramatic arts as theaters were reopened. However, Harvard remained a Puritan stronghold and theater was still discouraged, according to Robert Brustein, founder...