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...American countries with bona fide industries. All have been aided in recent years by new government financing and generous tax breaks for businesses that invest in film - sources that made up almost a quarter of Paraiso Travel's $4.7 million cost. The movie takes the Colombian boom up a notch, into the realm of films like City of God that Latin American critics are calling la buena onda - a more consistent "groove" of first-rate moviemaking that showcases a distinctive Latin feel, a documentary-style realism splashed with artful devices like hopscotch flashbacks and colorfully detailed shots. "These are films...
...This is another big reason why Japan is struggling to fill its classrooms. To offset dwindling enrollment, faculties need to reach out globally to attract foreign students as well as top-notch foreign teachers, who bring with them the ability to win lucrative research grants. But foreigners who opt to study in Japan sometimes regret their decision. Martin Rieger, a German attending Aoyama Gakuin University in central Tokyo, says that after one semester, he worries that he's falling behind his peers at his home university near Luxembourg. "I'm writing about topics and issues that will help...
...goal outburst last week in two games against Holy Cross and Massachusetts—the largest two-game Crimson offensive output since 1996—the Harvard women’s lacrosse team (3-0) stumbled early but bounced back Wednesday afternoon against Albany (2-2) to notch a 16-10 victory...
...epee at the event held at Vassar in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Men’s epee continued to be a high point for the squad, as senior Teddy Sherrill took bronze in the meet, and sophomore Karl Harmenberg finished eighth out of 34. The Crimson was the only squad to notch three top-10 epee finishes. “Today I started out feeling pretty sick, so I wasn’t sure how it was going to go,” Stallings said. “[In the final round] I felt surprisingly in control of the other seven fencers...
...Corralling the rebound of a shot by freshman Michael Biega in front of the goal, he skated around goaltender Mark Dekanich and deposited it into the right side of the net to knot the score at three.Despite an aggressive Crimson attack in the third period in an attempt to notch the game-winner, solid Raider defense thwarted each additional Harvard chance.With two minutes to play, junior center Jimmy Fraser fired a shot on goal, which was saved by Dekanich. Harvard recovered the rebound and a scuffle for the puck ensued in the crease. As the Crimson kept trying to fire...