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...International conspiracies. Nazis in the first and third Indys, Indian Thugees in the second. But it wouldn't be the '50s without Commies, in the chic person of Irina Spalko (played by Blanchett with the severe demeanor of Cyd Charisse's Ninotchka in the 1957 MGM musical Silk Stockings and the black bob Charisse sports in The Band Wagon). Rather than the simple matter of conquering the West militarily, Irina is part of a Soviet plot to cloud our minds by getting access to some secret technology that is concealed either in an Area 51 warehouse or in the remotest...
...Harvard is daunting, limiting the program to students who not only want to pursue a unique interdisciplinary path, but also have the drive and dedication to force their way through the system. “I really think it takes two months hard work,” says Irina D. Mladenova ’08, a special concentrator in Urban Studies, of the application process. As a transfer student in the fall of 2005, Mladenova began her sophomore year at Harvard as a History of Art and Architecture concentrator—but she quickly found her interests resonated more...
...students received. The move, according to teachers, may be controversial, but is necessary. “Before, you would conserve and put all your energy towards that one picture; and now, it’s like you take it, you see it, you fix it,” says Irina A. Rozovtsky, the teaching fellow for the class. She explains that there is no need for digital photography students to wait for negatives to come back, or to ever handle film. Because the digital students get instant feedback on their work, they end up taking almost four times the number...
...said Denzey. Still, she said writing virulent anti-Semitic speeches had been difficult for some students. Those with less controversial roles were able to appreciate the assignment with less difficulty. “I enjoyed it because my character was not an anti-Semitic person,” Irina L. Vaynerman ’10 said. “It felt good to be able to save the Jews.” Sarah K. Satinover ’08 said the assignment has been frustrating because of the volume of commentary on the class blog. “Everyone...
...Irina Martin, a German tourist who was in Bangkok for the party-loving city's raucous New Year's Eve festivities, must be glad she listened to her gut. Around 9 p.m. on Dec. 31, the kindergarten teacher from Hamburg was grappling with the unnerving news that six bombs had detonated across the Thai capital just a couple of hours earlier, targeting everything from a shopping mall and a supermarket to a bus stop at Victory Monument, one of the city's busiest gathering places. Watching the police comb for evidence at Victory Monument, Martin changed her mind about attending...