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Another event, titled “Old Skool Meets New School,” consisted of a series of workshops in the arts for local high school students. These lessons are a part of BAF’s efforts to bring Black Art to a community larger than Harvard alone. For Afari, this inclusive spirit is one of the best aspects of BAF because “everyone can identify with it, no matter what culture...
...larger breakthrough, however, was yet to come. “The Host,” which premiered in 2006 at the Cannes Film Festival, broke box office records in its home country with 13 million viewers in four months. The film focuses on a mutant monster generated by a U.S. Army laboratory which illegally dumped chemicals in the Han River (the “Seine of Seoul”). Bong was especially applauded for his ability to mix the conventions of a genre film—a monster film in this case—with his facetious social satire...
...last too long, but really that’s out of our hands,” said Lowell House resident tutor Van C. Tran. “That’s really something that the dean has to think about and hopefully allocate money within the constraints of the larger University community...
...Leverett Towers are characterized by large windows, grey rooms, massive common rooms, and diverse housing options. Rooming configurations include partitioned doubles, which are larger rooms that have been split into two smaller bedrooms and utilize shared bathrooms, and a type of housing called the “U”—large portions of a floor that can House up to seven Leverites or be divided into smaller rooms. Some of the Leverett rooms offer breathtaking views of the River and the Boston skyline, but heating is sometimes an issue...
...legacy of Zheng's voyages - involving hundreds of ships, some exponentially larger than the three captained by Christopher Columbus decades later, in 1492 - is being invoked by the Chinese as historical proof of the difference between China's and the West's roles in the world. Though the unprecedented display of maritime power was meant to extend the Ming dynasty's reach over a network of tributary states, Zheng rarely resorted to the type of violent, coercive measures taken for centuries by European colonizers, especially in Africa. "Zheng's a nominal symbol of China's peaceful engagement with the world...