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...daughter, who must make sense of the uneven racial landscape. “Beau Travail,” which won Denis global acclaim and various awards at a number of prestigious film festivals, is the poetic recollection of a former Foreign Legion officer in Djibouti. Based on Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd,” and set to Benjamin Britten’s opera of the same title, “Beau Travail” is no traditional war film. Scenes of the legionnaires, from training to doing laundry, are punctuated with dance sequences...
Striped Pajamas, written and directed by Mark Herman, requires everyone in it to remain unconscious to every clue - and there are many - about what is happening in the family's backyard. Even when the gas chambers are fired up, smoke blackening the sky and stench filling their nostrils, they insist the camp is just burning some old clothes. The largest silence is Shmuel's, who never forthrightly explains his desperate circumstances to Bruno. Maybe he doesn't want to shock his new friend. More likely his true imprisonment is in the desperate manipulations of this movie, its need to keep...
...credit. I hate to use the "G" word - but a lot of greed was involved in the IPOs those days. And the impact on our business -technology - was profound in the sense that a lot of those businesses that went away bought a lot of our products. Not just Herman Miller chairs, but also racks of servers and laptops and stuff. For a long time, throughout most of 2001, you could buy a lot of surplus servers on eBay for a third or tenth of the price. So there was a clear artificial bubble in terms of sales that...
...savvy enough to make $6.7 million before a judge sentenced him to 57 months in prison for something silly like “insider trading.” It would also be preposterous to skip Frederick H. Gwynne ’51, forever known to audiences everywhere as Herman Munster of the sitcom “The Munsters.” And what about one of the most influential alumni of all time, Rivers Cuomo ’99-’06, Weezer rocker? You could take his picture by the pool, because he’s the next...
...said. “If we dither and delay in dealing with housing repossession, unemployment, and inflation, then the backlash against capitalism will be serious.” ENTERPRISING NONPROFITSSummit attendees split up in the afternoon to attend interactive classroom sessions on a variety of topics. Business School professors Herman B. “Dutch” Leonard ’74 and Allen S. Grossman moderated a session on the future of social enterprise.Panelist Andrea Silbert ’86, president of the Eos Foundation, a private philanthropic organization, traced the development of the social sector...