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Whether the rewards she offers us are sufficient to offset the film's cliches of setting and the predictabilities of its emotional landscape are an open question. But I don't think you'll see a more fascinating and nuanced performance at the movies this year...
...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...
...orchestra helped build an intimate atmosphere within Paine Hall.In the first movement, a lilting flute and clarinet duet soothed away the cares of the audience, and the strings and woodwinds melded together like milk and honey.Then the woodwinds leaped into action in the second movement, though the brass players offset their energy by playing somewhat off beat.The strings delivered a dramatic performance in the third movement, though the brass section again writhed as if in its dying throes.Balance was restored in the fourth movement, where the tune—inspired by the Russia of Stravinsky’s birth?...
...ability to convert on the interior,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “We had no answers for [senior forward John] Baumann and with the strength they had and the way they were attacking the glass, we needed to make some shots to offset that and we didn’t.” Down 13 early, the Lions went on a 20-6 run to recapture the lead with 1:02 remaining in the first half. Columbia’s big men—Baumann and senior forward Ben Nwachukwu—scored...
...understand as, if there’s any damage to the house, [Harvard] would pay for it.”ROBUST MITIGATIONThomas J. Lucey, Harvard’s director of community relations for Cambridge, declined to comment on individual cases, but he says Harvard makes strong attempts to offset the effects of its development.“Harvard has probably the most comprehensive and robust construction mitigation program in this area, and it’s generally successful,” Lucey says.According to Lucey, the University hires structural engineers to survey all properties adjoining its construction projects before work...