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...Smith was inspired as a kid by the Scheherezade schlock of B-movie queen Maria Montez. As a director, he renamed one of his drag stars Mario Montez and starred him in no-budget avant-garde movies of delirious (and now endearing) Caligulan excess. Both Mario and Jack went to work for Andy Warhol, who called Smith "the only person I would ever copy. He?s just so terrific, and I think he makes the best movies." Warhol?s Factory and the films that emerged from it - Chelsea Girls and the rest - might not have existed without Smith?s influence...
...Vatican's strict opposition to condoms is well known. So opponents of the Roman Catholic Church's position on artificial contraception were heartened by comments from Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, the progressive retired Archbishop of Milan, who said condoms could be a "lesser evil" when used in the context of marriage to prevent the spread of hiv. Then Javier Lozano Cardinal Barragán, who heads a Vatican health committee, said his panel was preparing a document that would "reconsider" the church's stance. Not so fast. Vatican sources say the church's position has not changed - and will...
...Vatican's strict opposition to condoms is well known. So opponents of the Roman Catholic Church's position on artificial contraception were heartened by comments from Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, the progressive retired Archbishop of Milan, who said condoms could be a "lesser evil" when used in the context of marriage to prevent the spread of HIV. Then Javier Lozano Cardinal Barragn, who heads a Vatican health committee, said his panel was preparing a document that would "reconsider" the church's stance...
According to Mexican-born, Texas-raised Maria Teresa Herrera ’07, there are a lot of misconceptions about her culture, even within the Ivy League. “I feel that people think that everyone who is Latino is Mexican, even at a place like Harvard where there are Latinos representing all the Latin American countries,” she writes in an e-mail. Herrera is not alone in her desire to straighten out such views. Four years ago, members of Fuerza Latina, a pan-Latino student organization at Harvard, decided to produce an artistic exhibition with...
...Articles that are in peer-reviewed journals are always given more weight than those that are not,” Casey says. In the humanities, “hierarchies of excellence are not as transparent as they are in the sciences,” says Dean for the Humanities Maria Tatar. “It takes more time for people in the humanities to do the kind of work that is considered tenurable, whereas in the sciences someone who is in their late 20s has often done his or her greatest work, and it is immediately evident that that person...