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...grave post from East Timor, a tree carving from the American South, and ceramic pottery from sources as far-flung as Jamaica and the Himalayas line the office walls of Robert A. Lue, a senior lecturer on molecular and cellular biology...
DIED. Perry Henzell, 70, Jamaican director whose 1972 movie, The Harder They Come, the first-ever Jamaican-produced feature film, introduced reggae to a global audience; of bone-marrow cancer; in St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica. The movie--which featured songs like You Can Get It If You Really Want and Many Rivers to Cross--helped pave the way for Bob Marley's international breakthrough and launched the career of singer Jimmy Cliff. Its sound track was recently placed on TIME.com's list of 100 best albums in history...
...DIED. Perry Henzell, 70, Jamaican director whose 1972 movie The Harder They Come, the first-ever Jamaican-produced feature film, introduced reggae to a global audience; in St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica. The movie, featuring songs like You Can Get It If You Really Want and Many Rivers to Cross, helped pave the way for Bob Marley's international breakthrough and launched the career of singer Jimmy Cliff...
Tilting our way across Quincy Street we come upon the Barker Center. Here, students can take creative writing courses with luminaries of fiction such as Jamaica Kincaid, Steven Pinker, L. Ron Hubbard, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. At this point, we will break for lunch. We usually recommend the best bacon cheeseburger in the square, the “Alan Dershowitz” at Bartley’s. Before breaking bread, we make sure to lead the group in a good ol’-fashioned Harvard prayer, so we face the B-school and genuflect five times to the gods...
...plans to be a writer in some capacity after graduating from Oxford, and she attributes much of her success to “the opportunity to work with very talented writers and critics of literature, in particular professors Jamaica Kincaid, Elaine Scarry, and Helen Vendler...