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...craft. “Students use the camera to explore and interrogate the world for the stories, issues and characters it might reveal,” explained VES Professor Robb Moss, acting head of undergraduate studies and film production professor. While much of the program centers on the hands-on aspects of cinema—such as the complexities of working with 16mm film—its curriculum forces students to draw upon cinematic history and theory, said Moss.“The [film] program socializes film and...integrates it into the rest of my learning,” said...
...best known for producing a high number of I-bankers and consultants, some young artists of Harvard theater have decided to step out of the mold and onto paths less traveled. The College lacks a performing arts department, yet it is unique in that it boasts a lively hands-on theater completely culture dependent on extracurricular involvement. Lauren L. Jackson ’07, a sociology and women, gender, and sexuality studies concentrator who acts, dances, and sings, plans to move to New York City after graduation in order to pursue her passions. A professional dancer in Los Angeles since...
...groups never question the moral worth of direct service work, but tend to believe that more lasting and broadly-based change can be achieved through the political process. While this is a perfectly valid perspective, it works best when supplemented with the experience that can best be gleaned from hands-on work: seeing first-hand the consequences of eviction storage regulations through HPAG, or a struggling health care system through Project Health, or an underperforming school through a range of tutoring programs offered on this campus, can both inform and motivate in a manner entirely distinct from a policy paper...
...unclear to observers who did what at the company. "If there were separate trials and Lay were there by himself, he'd be putting Skilling on trial," Androphy says. "Lay would love to blame Skilling for all the evils that occurred at Enron. Skilling was there. He was hands-on. It's not the same for Lay." Lay, however, may turn out to be a better witness, says Houston attorney David Berg, author of The Trial Lawyer: What It Takes to Win. "You're going to see a charm offensive," Berg says. "Jurors give verdicts to people they like...
...Manly Hand Holding Joe Klein's column "the perils of Hands-On Diplomacy" [May 9] called attention to the photo of President Bush walking down an uneven path in Texas hand in hand with the infirm 80-year-old Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. There is nothing "unmanly"?as Klein characterized it?in extending a helping hand. Klein seems to lack any cultural awareness of the world outside the U.S. Dan Bloom Chiayi, Taiwan...