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...Third Dimension: Critics have shown “Avatar” remarkable lenience because of the perception that it will kickstart the 3-D segment of the film market, which up until now has been remained marginal, despite being populated by lucrative-but-questionable gems such as “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” and “My Bloody Valentine 3-D.” It’s true that Cameron managed to force the design and adoption of certain technologies a few years before they might otherwise have been picked up. However, three-dimensional...
...organization holds skill-building workshops, hosts guest speakers, stages discussion forums among student organization leaders, and runs a program to mentor middle school students. John W. Coleman, a member of the Institute’s board of advisers, said he hopes the funding will help “kickstart the institutionalization of the Leadership Institute at the College.” The Institute was originally formed to address what its founders perceived as a void in formal leadership training at the College. “There was no real dedicated office to leadership,” said Ben L. Brinkopf...
...highest caliber. As Gopnik writes, "Literary eloquence is essential to liberal civilization; our heroes should be men and women possessed by the urgency of utterance." With their adherence to logic and observation, and devotion to thoughtful expression, Lincoln and Darwin - in addition to everything else they accomplished - helped kickstart the engine of the modern...
...just envisioned Spike carrying a refrigerator on his back, threatening Becky “Icebox” O’ Shea, and talking about himself in the third person (“Spike don’t play with girls”). Worked like a dream. 3. You could kickstart a prolific career in television. One of my all-time favorite characters was Playboy model Megan from Season 3. She wore a bikini indoors and owned a mentally retarded Chihuahua. After winning Season 3 alongside partner Alan D. “Scooter” Zackheim...
...surprise, something did. Some of us can forge ahead on instinct or gumption, while some of us—Rupert and I included—need a kickstart in the right direction to get going. When I really thought about doing Teach For America (TFA), I began to wonder how I could do anything else. After a life of excellent education, of incredibly loving and supportive family members, of the best friends anyone could ask for, after four years of Harvard—with its ancient historical duty to its country and its world to send its graduates into service...