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Andrea H. Kurtz ’01, a chemistry concentrator in Kirkland House, received the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize last week at the Radcliffe Strawberry Tea, an event for graduating seniors sponsored by the Radcliffe Association...
Amidst a festive atmosphere where waiters served hors d’oeuvres and fresh strawberries underneath a tent on the grassy lawn next to her house, Greenleaf, Radcliffe Dean Drew Gilpin Faust announced that Kurtz would receive the award. Three runners-up were also announced: biology concentrator Megan E. Frederickson ’01, literature concentrator John T. Maier ’01, and applied mathematics concentrator Alison F. Egan ’01, a former Crimson executive...
Other winners were J. Ashley Burgoyne, Peter Ciganik, Andrea H. Kurtz, David A. Rice and Rebecca E. Shapiro of Kirkland House; Marlys S.S. Fassett, Eleanor K. Hubbard, Stanley M. Jurga and Luba T. Mandzy of Leverett House; Soman S. Chainani...
...Coppola saw fit to entirely re-edit the film and add 53 minutes worth of footage, which now clocks in at a whopping 3 1/4 hours. The original tale where Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent up the Nung river in Vietnam to meet the potentially insane Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) and "terminate with extreme prejudice," has been altered to heighten some of the film's sparse humorous moments, as Coppola has added one scene with Marlon Brando, as well as included scenes with Playboy Playmates. The August 15th release coincides with the 22nd anniversary of the film's original...
...conversation with him was like an encounter with Mr. Kurtz in Conrad's Heart of Darkness. This man who is responsible for so much of Colombia's barbarity possesses a glittering, dangerous lucidity. After seeing Castano on TV last August, wearing a casual white sweater instead of his usual combat gear and talking with great charm and simple logic, many Colombians began to think that in a twisted way his war makes sense. "The art of the guerrillas is to hide themselves among the civilians. That may give them immunity against the army and police but not against us," Castano...