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...education, it stressed the actual utility of creative pursuits, not simply the importance of aesthetic appreciation. Departments throughout the university are seeking to negotiate this line between artistic value and social resonance, though often placing greater emphasis on one aspect than the other. For the HFA, while the main objective is to exhibit films that are visually challenging, the content’s sophistication is also taken into consideration.“We tend to avoid showing films whose main objective is to deliver information, to deliver an ideological message,” says programmer David Pendleton...
...look at things from the Cambridge side. The Harvard Corporation—the University's main governing body—does not have to plan for a balanced budget every year, as a state legislature does. So, it has cut funding for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences this year by 8 percent and will cut at least another 8 percent the following year, though FAS Dean Michael D. Smith is expecting 12 percent. If Dean Smith is right, that amounts to a 19 percent cut spread out over two years—not much better than the UC system...
...moves into his apartment to take care of him while struggling with her own romantic difficulties. The plot then alternates between Pierre and Élise’s battles against illness and loneliness, and the lives of other Parisians, many of whom are only tangentially related to the main characters.The most compelling element of the film is easily Binoche’s portrayal of Élise, a kindly single mother who is not above snapping at panhandlers and entering homes under false pretenses to get her brother a date. Unfortunately, Duris, who also starred...
...organizers of the protest had refused to seek an official city permit. But the march had the citizens' attention. On every main thoroughfare, onlookers filmed the spectacle, some offered water to marchers, others cheered on the cops. (Why is the G-20 Being Held in Pittsburgh...
...other main contenders are the U.S., Spain and Japan, and they've all hosted the Olympics before. So, Brazilians, with their beaches, sun, and a vibrant economy whose recent performance has shamed many developing-world rivals, believe that Rio de Janiero - and South America - deserves the chance to show what it can do. (See the long history of Olympic politics...