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...Which director(s) did you learn the most from and why? -Stephaan Harris in Washington, DCThe truth is you learn a different thing from all of them. They all have something to offer and every film by its nature-different actors, the different photographers, different writing, the different atmosphere of the film-you learn something from all of them. I think the best bit of advice I was ever given about film acting came from an American actor and producer and director called Bob Balaban. He said, You don't know where the arrow of your performance is going...
...have the magic solution. "I make 100 errors a day," the mayor says. "But I know that if I hadn't made any mistakes I wouldn't have accomplished anything at all." Italy needs more leaders willing to err in the pursuit of the public good, and citizens who learn to discard - and not recycle - those whose sole ambition is to cling to power...
...important respects, undergraduate education at Harvard College is residential in character,” the admissions office said in its announcement. “Students learn a great deal from the residential experience and contact with one another, complementing the experience of classrooms and laboratories...
...Zhou Tong and Liu Hao were among those unlucky enough to learn first-hand about the lingering danger. The two boys, aged 12 and eight at the time, were playing in a river in northeastern China's Jilin Province in 2004, when they came into contact with toxins that had leaked from the abandoned arms. The boys lived, but the illness induced by their exposure forced them to drop out of school. The Japanese government refused to pay damages to the boys' families, despite acknowledging that abandoned chemical weapons had been the cause of their sickness. Such cases inflame longstanding...
...those tourists might be shocked to learn a fact unlikely to mentioned by their tour guides: The scarlet ibis can often be found in less majestic circumstances - stewed in a curry and served up on a plate. And thanks to rampant poaching to satisfy the unsavory hunger for the bird that shares the country's national crest with the cocrico, claimed as Tobago's bird, conservationists fear that the ibis will forsake Trinidad. "We'd hunt them in the early morning," says Seth, a 21-year-old swamp tour guide and reformed poacher who asked that his real name...