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...film festival in November. The censorship board did not approve the films, so Ziada doorstopped its chairman at the elevator and rode up with him to plead her case. When the theater was suspiciously closed at the last minute, she rented a tourist boat on the Nile for opening night--waiting until it was offshore and beyond the arm of the law to start the movie...
There's a huge difference. Theater is grueling because it's every night. But the advantage is you get a long rehearsal period where you get the chance to explore a character in a proper linear, narrative way. In film, you're darting all over the place. Personally, even though I trained in theater and I do love theater, I love film more...
Sprinkled between a series of comedic anecdotes and profanities, Grammy Award winning comedian Lewis Black conveyed a clear message to a group of students at Kirkland House last night: find something you love, and do whatever it takes to pursue it. Notorious for his loud, angry stage persona, Black, visiting as part of the “Conversations with Kirkland” speaking series, turned down the volume—but not the crowd-pleasing four-letter words—and focused his talk on the pursuit of a fulfilling career. “Your major obligation in life, unless...
...included Robert W. Corty ’10 and Zachary V. Smith ‘09, who hope to create a one stop destination for college students to plan holiday trips with their project, GetOutOfCambridge. The pair snagged one of the three $15,000 McKinley Family Grants awarded last night, which, Corty said, would be put to use hiring programmers to redesign the group’s sight. Smith said he hoped that their Web site, originally conceived as a project for the popular undergraduate course Computer Science 50, will help students make savvier travel decisions. Currently, he said, students...
Gerry Adams—president of Sinn Féin, the second-largest political party in Northern Ireland—eschewed the recent violence in his home country in a speech at a packed Institute of Politics last night. “The pathway forward is a strong one toward peace and reconciliation,” Adams said. “The story of Ireland was one of death and distress.” Adams last spoke at Harvard in 1994, when Northern Ireland and Sinn Féin—which has been historically associated with the Irish Republican...