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...know that for days.") Industrial Light & Magic, his band of cybergeeks back in Los Angeles, hasn't finished its computer shots--because ILM is still building the computers. The 20th Century Fox board of directors is sending unhelpful memos (e.g., the Wookie should wear pants). The Fox boss, Alan Ladd Jr., has insisted that the last two weeks of principal shooting be done in one manic week. And the frail 32-year-old with a galaxy of ideas in his head seems near implosion. As Mark Hamill recalls, "He really looked like he was ready to burst into tears...
Knowing what to expect meant that Harvard administrators were able to take several steps to ensure that as few visa applications as possible were lost in the bureaucratic shuffle, said Harvard International Office (HIO) Director Sharon Ladd. In some cases, she said, this meant talking with the government directly to follow up on specific cases...
...President David Ward voiced strong criticism before the House Immigration Subcommittee last April in a special hearing devoted to SEVIS, Ladd and her staff at the International Office kept silent, devoting their resources instead toward moving information from their files to the new system...
...often talks about running into Sharon Ladd, director of the Harvard International Office, in the Yard a few days after the Sept. 11 attacks and knowing at once that he and she would be “talking a lot” that year. Their work has, in fact, closely intertwined—not only through that term but over the course of that summer and two years that have followed...
...Ladd works from the Holyoke Center, trying to minimize the number of students stranded in their home countries due to backlogs visa system. Over the past two summers, she geared up for the school year by working with students whose visa applications have gotten stuck behind national backlogs in visa processing...