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...world of scholarship reaches a very narrow audience and film has the potential to reach an exponentially larger audience," Coleman says. "The convention of using historical characters in fictional stories is well established. But film is such a strong medium that there's a special responsibility...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Latin Professor Who Consulted on | 2/28/2001 | See Source »

When the victim stood up, she saw a six foot tall, 40-year-old black male with a medium build, medium complexion and short cropped hair. The assailant was wearing a long, black-wool dress coat, a black multi-colored design sweater, and dark pants...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Woman Assaulted in Lamont Library | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...This was his first obsession, and when he got back to New York, he made up his mind to revolutionize it. Most American photographers, to him, were stuffy and sentimental "pictorialists," so bent on imitating the look of painting that they couldn't treat photography as an equal, independent medium. He developed a "straight" photography--direct, candid and true to nature--that captured American city experience as it had never been caught on film before, from the steaming draft horses in The Terminal, 1893, to the exquisitely etched, near Japanese view of the Flatiron Building in snow, 1902. The hundreds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Missionary of the New | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...being forced to learn Afrikaans, a language not of my ethnicity nor from my culture. Perhaps de Klerk should have tried to explain his reasoning on June 16, 1976, when unarmed schoolchildren were shot and killed as they demonstrated against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction...

Author: By Stewart TING Chong, | Title: Seeking Credibility and Truth | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

...Internet, as a medium, is inherently two-way. Hosting a private server so that I can access my personal files remotely, running a public video game server so that I can shoot virtual rockets at my buddies and placing a webcam to show streaming video of my roommate's goldfish--these are all as much part of "the Internet" as browsing the web or leeching music. Indeed, these days, new personal computers come with free space to host a website. The Internet's potential as a means of obtaining information is great, but its potential as a means of self...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Tear Down This Wall | 2/22/2001 | See Source »

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