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...producers of the feature-length version. They saw something special in that short film, and Acker was encouraged to expand on it. The results are still on the skimpy side - the film is only 79 min. - and while reminiscent of Coraline's playful weirdness and Wall-E's plotline, lack the power of either. The script by Pamela Pettler, who also worked on Burton's Corpse Bride script, doesn't support Acker's ambition for profundity. Unless this is your very first postapocalyptic story, a line like the one Number 2 delivers - "Technology has been the ruin...
...always been very attached to the animals I work with, and although a scientist is supposed to be subjective and lack empathy, I've always thought this is wrong. It's the empathy you feel with a living, individual being that really helps you understand. Then you can use your scientific training to find out if your intuition is correct...
...Harvard coach Erik Farrar said. “We’ve got four great games and we’re playing all of them to win.”In order to do so, the Crimson must revamp its offense, which struggled last weekend.In particular, players cited a lack of variety in the Harvard attack, but Farrar insisted that issue is in the past.“It’s a natural part of the process [that] early in the season you’re putting things in along the way,” Farrar said...
...partly attributed the endowment’s underperformance to “complications” within the portfolio existing before the financial crisis, including “recent over-sized commitments to illiquid asset classes; within asset classes, a larger proportion of strategies with long holding periods; [and] a lack of ready liquidity in the portfolio to meet our obligations along with the needs of the University.” For years, Harvard has been the subject of scrutiny—and idolatry—as its endowment consistently generated double-digit yearly investment returns, largely due to its heavy...
...will be essential to our passing a bill in the House of Representatives," Pelosi told reporters on the White House driveway on Tuesday afternoon, after a meeting with the President. However, when pressed about whether she might accept a compromise that would allow for a public plan only if lack of competition in the marketplace triggers it a few years down the line, Pelosi for the first time equivocated, as her Democratic-leadership colleagues had already done. "This, as you know, is the legislative process. And right now, we will have a public option in our bill." (Watch TIME...