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...many times have you dreamed of being the next Roberto Benigni? The Newport International Film Festival may be able to help you get started. Having already debuted last year to rave reviews, the organizers of the program are gearing up for another successful year to establish themselves on the famous Newport Festival circuit. Taking place in the first week of June, the Festival boasts 4 United States and 3 World Premieres, in addition to countless other international features, documentaries and short films. The Harvard Crimson caught up with Programming Director Maude Chopin, Executive Director Christine Schomer and Festival Director Nancy...
...sound and tuned out the chiding and disgust of fans who felt he had abandoned folk music. With "Maggie's Farm" Dylan broke with what many considered an unwritten contract forged among artists including Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie and other poets who put politically conscious poetry to music. At Newport he shouted back at hecklers who called him Judas; Dylan later proclaimed that he no longer considered himself an anti-war, singularly motivated musician and sought instead to represent only himself and his music...
...Curt Newport found it on the first try. "I remember saying, 'Oh my God, I can't believe it. That's it. We found it. This is it!"' Newport said afterward. The sonar on the salvage expert's ship had spotted 88 potential targets in the 24-square-mile area Newport had isolated after 14 years of analyzing NASA charts and photographs. The first object Newport checked out looked like airplane wreckage -- until he made out the words "United States" on the video monitor. Mission accomplished. But the mystery of why the hatch blew in the first place will likely...
...Newport resident Peter E. Franklin, a member ofthe Class of 1953, was one of about 50 people whopacked into the small shop to hear Bradley speak...
Which is one reason artificial-muscle researchers convened for the first time earlier this month at the International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials in Newport Beach, Calif. "It's clear that if we're going to build little robots that do things, then they've got to have muscles," says Paul Calvert, a materials scientist at the University of Arizona. He uses polymer gels to construct "Jell-O jacks," which resemble the wobbly dessert but are capable of raising and lowering small objects. Agrees Qiming Zhang, an electrical engineer at Pennsylvania State University: "The only bottleneck is that...