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POLICE LOGMay 4: 7:12 a.m.: Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers were dispatched to a report of a fire outside of the Hoffman Lab Geology. Upon arrival, they saw the Cambridge Fire Department extinguishing a minor fire started in the bushes in front of the building. It was determined the cause was likely a discarded cigarette.9:54 p.m.: Officers were dispatched to Longwood Ave. in order to assist Boston Police Department counterparts. The reporting party stated they had entered a taxi who had insisted the destination was out of his regular range and would require further charges. The driver...
...songs like “Hold On,” W.E.B. DuBois, Class of 1890, wrote: “Through all the sorrow of the Sorrow Songs there breathes a hope—a faith in the ultimate justice of things. The minor cadences of despair change often to triumph and calm confidence. Sometimes it is faith in life, sometimes a faith in death, sometimes assurance of boundless justice in some fair world beyond. But whichever it is, the meaning is always clear: that sometime, somewhere, men will judge men by their souls and not by their skin. Is such...
...While at Harvard, Tranfaglia kept himself busy with a concentration in biology, an unofficial minor in psychology, and a host of extracurricular sporting activities...
...Alison getting to know, and like, one another after their first hasty but consequential encounter - is rendered plausible by Apatow's shrewd observations of the people in their lives. Indeed, one of the real pleasures of this movie is derived from the fact that Apatow writes his minor characters - a TV host, a wardrobe mistress, a slyly envious production executive - with the same care and wit as he does his major figures...
...Tarantino and Fincher films, if not nearly the best of the directors' work, paraded the filmmaking brio, the narrative twists and drive, that mark solid updates of the classic Hollywood style. That the jurors ignored every member of this quartet, while laying hands on Van Sant's very minor indie effort, could possibly suggest an anti-Hollywood agenda. Major U.S. studios may take the hint, and be more reluctant to submit films for the competition in future years...