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...much riding on it. Just the state of the world. The condition of your country,” George Clooney adds in the press release. In making such films, young Americans will not only be motivated to conduct research on social concerns but also affect and inform those who were previously unaware of the issues. “Film has a great power in reaching audiences, forming opinions, and challenging people,” says Akis P. Konstantakopoulos ’06, a VES concentrator. “This method will definitely be more successful than a bunch of people...
...playwright. Durang says he was “very surprised” and “flattered” when John A. Lithgow ’67—who acted in Durang’s 1982 “Beyond Therapy”—called to inform him that he’d been selected for the Arts Medal.AWARDS GALORESince graduating, Durang has won three Obie Awards, received a Tony Award nomination, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination, among other honors. He now teaches in the playwriting program at the Julliard School in New York City.He says that...
...undergraduate population. Though a gap of merely five to seven years separates the nubile undergraduate from the average woebegone TF, it is very hard to mistake one for the other.Thus, for interested parties, I have codified TF fashion, in order to both celebrate their Banana Republic fabulousness and inform the surrounding populace about how to identify them on the street. You know, so as not to complain about them in their presence.Type 1: The “Your first language was definitely not English, but you are so freaking metrosexual that I love you anyway” TF.These...
This much is known: On April 20, career CIA analyst Mary McCarthy was fired from her job 10 days before retirement. McCarthy admitted to having undisclosed contact with reporters, and a CIA spokesperson says, without identifying McCarthy, that the fired CIA officer also admitted disclosing classified information to the media. Sources said this includes the Washington Post's Dana Priest, who had just won a Pulitzer Prize for writing that the CIA secretly detained terrorists in Eastern Europe who hadn't been charged with a crime. Beyond that, the case gets murky. Government sources tell TIME that McCarthy might have...
...scholars. Mailed back from across the nation and sometimes across the globe, the external letters respond to the 20 or so requests from departments for evaluations of tenure candidates compared to five or six other scholars in a cohort spanning 10 to 15 years. The internal and external reviews inform each other. “They look at nominally the same thing, but the outside letters have less insight into teaching, advising, and internal service,” says Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department Chair Cynthia Friend, who chaired a 2003 committee that reviewed faculty appointment processes.INSIDE THE BOARDROOMEach Wednesday...