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...start of his deanship, Knowles was faced with a faculty that was running $12 million deficits. He managed to bring it back to solvency while aggressively expanding space for the Faculty and students, including the opening of the Barker Center for the Humanities and the renovations of Memorial Hall after a fire destroyed large parts of the building. Knowles also spearheaded the massive renovation of first-year dorms in the Old Yard, improving a crucial part of freshman life at Harvard...
...Rififi scenario was replayed, more for laughs than for suspense, in Topkapi. The gang comprises not the standard tough guys but con artistes on a lark, to steal a jewel-encrusted scimitar from a hall in the Topkapi museum. Maximilian Schell leads a troupe of some of the major muggers of international cinema: Mercouri, Akim Tamiroff, Peter Ustinov (who won an Oscar), Titos Vandis and Robert Morley. But the more valuable member is the muscular Gilles Segal, as the acrobat whose job is to be lowered by rope into the hall from a high window, then remove the case, nick...
...tense his neck muscles and speak in a sonorous growl that brought authority and menace to his speeches; he could make piety sound robust. But where Lancaster and Douglas were kinetic, bursting with restlessness, Heston was essentially static - not so much statuesque as a statue in some audio-animatronic hall of Heroes. He stood and he spoke. That's why screenwriters loved him as much as movie audiences did. He was a hero to them...
CORRECTION APPENDED Three panelists questioned the integrity of Harvard’s stated goals of environmental and social sustainability in its expansion into Allston before a crowd of two dozen students last night in Emerson Hall...
...University Hall actually believes that undergrads will stop drinking once the rules are changed. The new “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach to student debauchery comes out of a desire not to be completely screwed-over the next time the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office has a slow work day, not a plan to turn the lot of us into teetotalers...