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Special effects are hardly new to movies, nor are they an exclusively American invention. The ground-breaking special-effects movie A Trip to the Moon was made in 1902 by a French filmmaker named Georges Melies. Techniques were improved over the years in such landmark films as King Kong (1933) and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). But most Hollywood studios had closed down their special-effects units by the mid-1970s, when Director Lucas set out to make a space adventure called Star Wars. To create the futuristic world he envisioned, Lucas set up his own shop...
...effort to prevent construction last spring, community activists filed a petition to have the 94-year-old building at 10 Mt. Auburn declared a historical landmark. Although the Housing Commission eventually decided against making 10 Mt. Auburn a landmark, it did place a six-month freeze on construction. As a result, Harvard eventually decided to renovate rather than tear down the building...
...eight years since the landmark Bakke case, the U.S. Supreme Court has tacked back and forth unpredictably on the issue of affirmative action, prompting Reagan Administration lawyers and liberal civil rights activists alike to claim that the results really favored them. Last week, in what may prove to be a decisive course marker, the court struck down by a 5-4 vote a Michigan school-district plan that sought to protect minority hiring gains by laying off white teachers ahead of blacks with less seniority. It was a decision with a bit of something for everyone...
...subjective field. But now therapists have a study to cheer about: a six-year, $10 million effort concluding that talk therapy can be just as good as drug therapy in treating depression. Exultant scientists at the National Institute of Mental Health, which funded the project, hail it as a "landmark," and Psychiatrist Jerome Frank calls it the "standard against which all other psychotherapy research will be assessed." Says Herbert Pardes, former director of NIMH: "It is unique in terms of size and the elegance of its construction...
...Business School professor will give expert testimony this summer in a landmark lawsuit over the future of professional football...