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...Dassin had a lucky bounce when producer Mark Hellinger hired him to direct Brute Force, and the director rose to the challenge with one of the boldest, tautest films of the postwar crime cycle. Finally, he was in the gnarled noir territory that suited him. The story of a vicious prison guard (Hume Cronyn) and the angry cons under his boot, Brute Force is a sharp evocation of unrest in a totalitarian state. It also set up motifs Dassin would keep returning to. Here, as in Rififi, the lead character (Burt Lancaster) is a criminal who has our sympathy...
...Mark Penn, the strategist with near-total control over Hillary Clinton's campaign message and strategy since its inception, gave up his senior role under pressure, her campaign announced on Sunday night. The stunning announcement came after it was revealed Friday that Penn, in his capacity as worldwide CEO of the lobbying firm Burson-Marsteller, had held discussions with officials from Colombia on a bilateral free-trade agreement. Clinton has said she is against such a pact. While campaigning for the Ohio primary, Clinton had assailed Barack Obama's campaign for what she said was its tacit collusion with Canada...
...current student, to look with amusement at the grand designs that the new freshmen have in store. Certainly there is nothing wrong with a measure of overeagerness and naïveté. But is it possible that the thing which places these utopian expectations so wildly off-mark is their existence in the first place? Or, put differently: do the unmoored expectations of Harvard prefrosh reflexively cancel themselves...
...victory in the ECAC championship game and its resulting berth in the NCAA tournament, Harvard’s whole season can be arranged into a collection of turning points, whose outcomes became the storylines that this team’s play created.For me at least, two games mark that trajectory on the season level, and the first one was not pretty. In a 7-2 loss to the Boston College Eagles that would mark the start of a seven game losing streak, the Crimson’s inability to play disciplined hockey and capitalize on scoring chances established itself...
Walker and his colleagues founded the International HIV Controllers Study in 2006 with a $2.5 million grant from Mark Schwartz ’76 and Lisa Schwartz, which currently involves more than a dozen countries...