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Records are made to be broken, but on Mount Everest they have been shattering at a dizzying pace in the past month. It's peak season on the 29,035-ft. summit--the world's highest--and more than 90 mountaineers made it to the top just last week. Here's a look at some of the notables who were up for the climb...
...Ceylan film, Climates, is a typical choice, and a bit better than that, for an art-film festival. It moves at a glacial pace - actually, we can't use that metaphor any more, after what we learn about melting icecaps from the Gore movie, but this is a film that takes its time - with a camera that rarely moves and characters who for long stretches are wrapped mutely in isolated misery against stunning landscapes...
...Festival veterans of a certain age (and we are) remember when Cannes moved at a more leisurely pace. After a couple of morning movies, one took a salade nicoise lunch at a beach restaurant, then rented a mattress and sunbathed for an indolent hour. The films then were part of a comprehensive Riviera experience: visiting the medieval town of St. Paul de Vence, seeing the Miro and Matisse works at the Maeght Museum, roller-coastering on Provence's precarious cornices. No time for that any more. Our schedules are busier than a big city mayor's. We are slaves...
SEPTEMBER 27, 2005 Kirby announced that he was slowing the pace of faculty hiring “to allow our financial resources to catch up.” The meeting came two months after Conrad K. Harper, the Harvard Corporation’s sole black member, resigned from the board. “The Corporation now looks more like Harvard in the 19th century than in the 21st century,” Matory said at the meeting...
...chicken-and-tarragon pie with mashed potatoes, greens and gravy. For dessert, we shared the strangely satisfying chocolate-and-beetroot cake. The service was friendly and efficient. But when I returned on a Sunday, the clientele was dressed down, and the staff moved at a far more leisurely pace. Sure beats the office canteen, though. canteen.co.uk