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...that it's not appealing or I'm holding back. But if a Latin American film like Motorcycle Diaries comes up, I'm going to do it. It's about what I like...
...Joost will soon announce another big deal--with JumpTV, the world's largest distributor of international TV stations, to begin distributing programming from some of the 270 stations in 70 countries that JumpTV owns rights to. The deal will launch with prerecorded Spanish and Arabic programming from stations in Latin America and the Middle East. Eventually JumpTV plans to provide Joost with live streams from TV stations around the world. That will move Joost further from video on demand and closer to live...
DIED. Frank Snowden Jr., 95, Howard University classicist and pioneer in the field of blacks in antiquity; in Washington. He developed a passion for the field at the Boston Latin School and Harvard and went on to write books, including Before Color Prejudice, showing that ancient Greece was comparatively free of the violent racism that plagued later Western nations. One of the explanations he offered was that Greeks and Romans first encountered blacks as soldiers and mercenaries, not as slaves...
...thought Harvard had enough over-achievers already, you thought wrong. Make way for the high schoolers. Three students from the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CLRS) are enrolled in classes in the College’s physics and government departments this semester. They will receive both high school and college credit for their work. Previously, high school students had only been eligible to take classes at the Extension School, for which did not get high school credit, according to Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn. In order to enroll in College classes, students must submit a special application...
...Additionally, Harvard has yet to establish a study abroad program anywhere in the region, though such programs exist in Africa, Europe, Canada, Latin America, the Middle East, and East Asia. Though SAI’s seminar series and special events have attracted prominent academics, politicians, and artists from the region, courses and opportunities for research abroad are the only ways in which undergraduate students can develop a sustained interest and deeper knowledge of the region. In these two areas, South Asian studies at Harvard has failed to meet undergraduate needs...