Word: jeane
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Entitled "A Closer Look at Harvard's Hiring Practices: Women and Minority Faculty Tenure," the discussion was organized by students in reaction to President Neil L. Rudenstine's decision to reject the tenure bids of associate professors of government Jean C. Oi and Jennifer A. Widner...
...intelligence agency and given a new life as an assassin. In The Professional, set in New York City, his subject is a 12-year-old named Mathilda (Natalie Portman), the only member of her family to survive a criminal massacre. She turns to a neighbor for succor. Leon (Jean Reno) is an inarticulate fellow. He drinks milk by the gallon, tenderly cares for a plant that is his only friend and likes old Gene Kelly movies. He is devoted to his work as a "cleaner," a Mob hit man of rare talent...
...panel moves from the courtly, bland and ineffectual Democrat Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island to the reactionary Helms, who promises to let few Administration positions go unquestioned. Helms has always been a bomb thrower, unafraid of blowing up reputations abroad and at home. He likened Haitian leader Jean- Bertrand Aristide to Adolf Hitler. He still refers to the world's most populous country as "Red" China. He stuck up for the architects of apartheid over the black majority in South Africa and once accused Reagan-era Secretary of State George Shultz of "playing footsie with the communists." Last year, after...
Decades ago, this Swiss judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) was obliged to determine the case of a defendant with whom he had a personal score to settle -- the accused had stolen the only woman the judge had ever loved. The judge passed sentence, then took to a life of electronic snooping on his neighbors. Into this lair of auditory voyeurism comes Valentine (Irene Jacob), a student and fashion model. Her passionate good nature stirs memories of that other young woman in the judge's life. He is touched, perhaps enough to end his sordid pastime...
Film, according to Jean-Luc Godard, is the truth 24 frames per second. In his latest film, "Helas Pour Moi (Woe is Me)," Godard examines perhaps some higher truths--the nature of God's existence and His love...