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...most-watched video on YouTube last week but also raised the viral-video site's political profile. For all the hype over "The YouTube Election" (as the New York Times dubbed it), Web video has not proved to be a persuasion tool. It is an opt-in medium: you have to seek out videos or click on an e-mail link, whereas TV ads crawl through your cable line and hunt you down. In the partisan world of political websites, there are few undecideds; we are not exactly a society of people who surf the Web to find arguments that...
That's not bad for a documentary film that, given the nature of its medium and its distressing subject matter, is bound to have limited audience appeal. But, of course, serious documentarians never work for money or fame. Since the beginnings of the genre, their aim has usually been to call attention to injustice and, if possible, correct it. Berg got onto this story by making segments about the topic for news programs, then found she could not avoid making the O'Grady case the focus of her first full-length film...
...nation in the study of medieval archeology too.” Carver, who garnered fame for his 10-year excavation of the medieval burial site, spoke about the history of Sutton Hoo’s excavation. The site attracted the attention of archeologists in 1939 when a spirit medium directed an amateur to a ceremonially buried ship, Carver said. But Sutton Hoo remained untouched until Carver’s excavation in 1983, he added. Carver discovered additional burial sites and the graves of several executed men, he said in the lecture. By chemically analyzing the sand of the previously excavated...
...Harvard’s artistic elite face the same choice as the late Biggie Smalls. Facing the prospect of scraping by on an artist’s salary, non-profit or arts-related consulting can be an attractive—if unconventional—middle ground. THE HAPPY MEDIUM So far this year, 42 percent of all job applicants going through the Office of Career Services (OCS) at Harvard have applied to consulting firms, while financial services and investment banking each make up 27 percent, according to William Wright-Swadel, the director of the OCS. That consulting is a popular...
...There is nothing wrong with being savvy in business, and “Mindless Eating” is only as well-packaged as any other commodity. On the cover (which has a matte white finish and medium blue font strikingly similar to that of “Blink”), “Ph.D.” is displayed prominently beside Wansink’s name, an appealing adjective that both validates “Mindless Eating” as a diet book and elevates the reader’s expectations...