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...accolades from the likes of J.M. Coetzee.“I wasn’t involved in The Advocate, The Signet, or any of those,” Dovey says. “I always found them very pretentious. I avoided them like the plague.”A joint concentrator in Social Anthropology and Visual and Environmental Studies, Dovey instead focused her creative endeavors on documentary filmmaking. Her senior thesis included a film on post-apartheid black economic empowerment projects on wine farms in her native South Africa.Dovey spent her early childhood shuttling back and forth to Australia with...
...country has seen a small-scale revival of its once-thriving movie industry. This revitalization culminated in several film festivals, including the First International Short Film Festival in Baghdad in 2005. The Harvard event will be the American premiere of the Baghdad festival’s joint winners of the Best Documentary Award. “Damned Gum,” directed by Ammar Saad, tells the story of a young journalist whose perspective changes after his partner is killed, while “The Office of Security,” directed by Hadi Mahood, centers on the suffering...
...want events to be better organized and safer,” Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin said. “Right now, students think a lot about their events, but we can provide more resources.” The proposed changes come from a joint subcommittee of the Committee on House Life (CHL) and the CCL. The subcommittee was created last fall in response to “a series of incidents during House events,” specifically the fight that erupted during a Harvard Society of Black Scientists and Engineers party in Lowell. McLoughlin...
...College fit his interdisciplinary interests. So, after a grueling application process, Rice became one of the 21 undergraduates pursuing degrees through the Department of Special Concentrations this year. Established in 1971, the Department of Special Concentrations enables students with a particular passion to combine various fields of study without joint concentrating. But in the Harvard system, one concentration isn’t necessarily easier than two: with little support or guidance from the College, students seeking an individualized concentration must go through intense administrative rigmarole to tailor-make a degree. This lengthy and difficult process of applying for a special...
...meets foreign leaders. "Tony Blair and President Sarkozy are personal friends," says an adviser to the French President. "Sarkozy's relationship with Brown is as warm and positive as it was with Blair in terms of foreign policy and European issues, but it lacks the personal friendship." Brown's joint press conference with Bush at Camp David last July was a study in embarrassment, as Bush's homespun joviality bounced off the dark-suited, buttoned-up Scot...