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...clear message to about half of the population: you can go anywhere in the world,” regardless of financial and other barriers. The impact extends as well. “I worry like crazy that if we’re unable to reach out to those [lower socio-economic groups], that talent will not be developed, and America will be less of a power in the world,” Fitzsimmons said. Fitzsimmons’ talk was well received by the students who nearly filled Fong Auditorium. Several said they would heed Fitzsimmons’ call...
...playing smart people,” said Levy. “There’s no movie if everyone is competent,” Guest added. “We have this informal contest where we look at each other’s characters and try to go lower.”“For Your Consideration,” the pair’s latest creation, explores a field with no dearth of dim people: Hollywood.Departing from their signature mockumentary format, the film follows a more traditional narrative style, although most scenes remain improvised. It follows a gang...
...Clark, the store was quieter, although I did spot a Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies TF at a table with her laptop. In addition to coffee and their signature line of sweet pies, Petsi offers savory pies and frittatas, soups, sandwiches, cookies, and breakfast goods, all at prices slightly lower than the typical Harvard Square café. Clark said that they had seen a pretty steady flow of students since the start of the school year, especially since Head of the Charles, on top of the consistently “great” neighborhood contingent of moms and babies...
...similar suit was brought in Germany in 2005 and dismissed after prosecutors ruled that the U.S. still had jurisdiction and was pursuing those responsible. The civil rights activists who brought the Rumsfeld suit claim that the basis for that decision is no longer valid, since only lower-level figures have been convicted in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. The German federal prosecutor Monika Harms will likely make her decision officially early in the new year. "At best it's an uphill struggle," said Zimmermann...
...Meanwhile, a German appeals court this week found a friend of three of the 9/11 hijackers guilty of being an accessory to "numerous murders," and sent the case back to a lower court for sentencing...