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When Edward R.M. Kane `51 arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1947, he had never traveled further from Massachusetts than New York City. Fifty years later, Kane has spent the majority of his life living in the world's most unstable political terrain...
During his thirty one years working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),Kane has lived in Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Senegal, Algeria, and most-recently Portugal, his only non-Muslim post. After returning to private life in Portugal, Kane acted as a security adviser to the Portugese government, which resulted in a knighthood of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator...
...Kane, who claims he never really felt his life was in danger during his CIA years, says Harvard frightened him when he first arrived. Though valedictorian of his high school class, Kane, a scholarship winner from a public school in Rockland, a town of 8800 found himself unprepared for Harvard's academic rigor. "The breakdown was 50% of private school and 50% public school," Kane remembers. "But I found that the private school gradates were so far ahead of me that I realized I was going to have to work very hard in order to maintain my scholarship...
It’s been quite a year for Bianca Montgomery. Since returning home last fall from treatment for anorexia, Bianca has come to terms with her sexuality and revealed her lesbianism to everyone in Pine Valley. Bianca’s manipulative but loving mother, Erica Kane, initially struggled with her daughter’s unexpected announcement, but it appears that their relationship is back on track. With that traumatic experience behind her, Bianca is now focused on giving moral support to Laura, a potential love interest with a serious heart condition...
...Brattle Theatre to showcase the works of prominent and emerging female filmmakers, will be held from Thursday, April 19 through Sunday, April 22. This year, in addition to The Luzhin Defense, Christine Lahti’s My First Mister (starring Albert Brooks, Leelee Sobieski, John Goodman, and Carol Kane) will be highlighted, as well as films by renowned directors Sally Potter, Lynne Sopkewich and Samantha Lang. Screenings will be held all weekend long at the Brattle as well as the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline...