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...Altman just shoots it, without directorial comment or commitment. He's no more than a technician, fearful, it seems, of intruding too heavily on Keillor's territory. But that territory is, in this case, essentially undefended by its founder-proprietor. It is waiting for someone, something, to grant its people felt and wayward lives. If A Prairie Home Companion functions at all it is as a performance film - some of the songs, though not particularly well shot, are at least lively. But that's not enough. Streep's work aside, you can pretty much get all that's worth having...
...council, certainly took a “leadership role....It was inspiring how he motivated people in the UC.”NOW UC HIMThomas D. Hadfield ’08 worked to transform the guidelines governing the UC’s disbursement of over $200,000 in grants to student groups this past year. But for Hadfield, that was just chump change.The Guardian of London estimates Hadfield made over £1 million from website Soccernet, which he created at age 12.Soccernet is now part of sports network ESPN, so Hadfield, who is also a Crimson editorial editor...
School of Public Health (SPH) faculty members fumed after Summers seized control in 2004 of an SPH professor’s federal grant to fight AIDS in Africa. And Summers’ decision to appoint political scientist Alan A. Altshuler as dean of the Graduate School of Design rankled professors who would have preferred an architect...
...Summers was surely aware of the $26.5 million in legal fees and fines that Harvard was forced to pay. Yet, asked at the Feb. 7 Faculty meeting for his thoughts on the matter, Summers professed ignorance and refused to affirm the principle behind the affidavits that every professor with grant funding must sign—that we will not maintain investments whose profitability could be affected by our official research. At that critical moment, Summers’ reputation for “straight talk” failed him, and the selectiveness of his respect for truth, scholarly integrity, and equal...
...night eateries, such as Felipe’s Taqueria (which faced penalties last fall for selling burritos a few minutes past 2 a.m.), would be disruptive to Cambridge residents. Most of the Square’s restaurants and bars, however, are in non-residential areas. Clearly, the city could grant these restaurants later hours, boosting the city’s economy, with little sacrifice of residential quality of life...