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Henry Mukasa, SHARON, MASS...
...someone who watches TV for a living yet gets most news online or off cable, I think he's right. (Not just about TV news but most of the mass media.) But it's still sad to see TV news giving up on that dream, and the ambitions that go with it. It may be easy to mock Couric's palsy-walsy tone and Anchorman references, but at least she's trying to get new viewers' attention. Is change good for its own sake? In one way, yes. There's an intangible complacency that comes when you decide your mission...
...director William A. Wellman’s 1950 film “The Next Voice You Hear,” radio broadcasts were God’s chosen intermediary with mankind. The role of mass media in that film, and others from the period, reflected Hollywood’s growing role in American society in the 1950s, said James Hoberman, senior film critic for the Village Voice newspaper, at a seminar yesterday. Speaking to a small gathering of film aficionados at the Carpenter Center, Hoberman offered a preview of his next book, which will focus on the role...
...advice on the search for a new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Faust, who requested the meeting with the Faculty’s top governing body, is expected to name a new dean as one of her first acts as she prepares to move into Mass. Hall on July 1. Faust asked the 18 professors on the council for their thoughts on the search, prompting a private discussion of the qualities that they hope to see in a new dean, according to Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan...
...2011—this summer with the demolition of the Everett Street parking garage, a structure Kagan has called one of the biggest eye sores on the Law School’s campus. The project will also involve demolishing Wyeth Hall, a dormitory, moving two houses further up Mass. Ave., and tearing down the eastern lobe of Pound Hall to create a courtyard between the new building and the Harkness Commons...