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...already had its monster mash, on 9/11. So there's no way you can watch downtown panic and crumbling towers without it seeming a bit... familiar. Naturally the director says, he didn't want to diminish or exploit the residue of grief from 9/11. And, as the press notes inform us, "The visual effects teams even took care that the collapsing buildings in the film were older-looking structures that did not evoke the style of the structures that were attacked six years earlier." You're right, visual effects team. It doesn't bother a New Yorker...
...Allston community’s concerns seriously. “There have been more than 70 community meetings both on the master plan and on the first science buildings,” said Lauren Marshall, a Harvard spokeswoman. “All of that discussion and dialogue goes to inform our planning as projects shape...
...received approval from Cambridge officials to pick up and drop off passengers on Bennett Street, outside the Charles Hotel. But a week before its first bus was scheduled to leave, the company was suddenly notified that it had to change locations, and “scurried” to inform its passengers, according to Bluzenstein. Vamoose’s Bluzenstein said the company is still working to obtain the license and hopes to begin service again soon. “We got a lot of positive response there from Harvard students,” Bluzenstein said. She said that...
...requirements by developing relationships with registrars. Rosenfeld said the strategy worked, citing figures placing voter turnout for students from the New Mexico campuses at 3.8 percent, a number similar to the national average for schools in unrestricted areas. However, the Student PIRGs’ efforts in Arizona to inform students about voting restrictions through one-on-one interaction did not generate similar success, with students only voting at a rate of 3.5 percent. The study also included suggestions to make voting more accessible to young people, including allowing voter registration up until election day and allowing people to more easily...
...Still, Romney did little to put to rest persistent questions about what exactly he believes. The candidate promised at the beginning of his address that "I will offer perspectives on how my own faith would inform my Presidency," and asserted throughout that he was shaped by his religious beliefs, but he left the details vague. He mentioned the word "Mormon" only once, in a passage forcefully refusing to distance himself from his faith, and referred instead to "my faith" or "my church" on ten other occasions...