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...behind being gay, and a scene in which leading theologians debate the Bible’s stance on homosexuality.Karslake tapped two Harvard affiliates, Professor Peter J. Gomes ’68 and Reverend Irene Monroe (a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Divinity School), for their expertise.While working for the PBS news magazine “In the Life,” Karslake profiled Monroe, and their interaction served as a catalyst for the documentary. Many factors contributed to the film’s lineup. According to Reitan, Monroe led Karslake to Gomes, who in turn got Bishop Robinson involved...
...missed science very much. My very first experience, we got the cover of Science [Magazine]! Displaying the unbridled enthusiasm of an emerging non-artist, Frankel is excited to talk of her past and present exhibits. Apart from an upcoming appearance on “Wired Science” on PBS, Frankel also exhibited 14 murals on the Champs Elysée in Paris. I know, isn’t that crazy? I never got to see it. They never paid me, by the way. I am convinced that people worldwide are drawn to science with an unintimidating approach. I believe...
...state of paradox – at once celebrated and assailed. A host of popular writings from the 1980s on have charged universities with teaching too little, costing too much, coddling professors and neglecting students, embracing an “illiberalism” that has silenced open debate. A PBS special in 2005 described a “sea of mediocrity” that “places this nation at risk.” A report issued by the U.S. Department of Education last year warned of the “obsolescence” of higher education...
...craft disappear and the character materialize. George Grizzard, who died this week at a much-too-young 79, had that gift. Of course he was Nick in the original production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Of course he was John Adams in the PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles. When he played any number of brash young men in TV anthology series, he was those men, as just as easily, or magically, the flinty gents of Judgment at Nuremberg and revivals of Albee's A Delicate Balance and Seascape on Broadway over the past decade...
...Harvard Nieman fellow who helped expose the cover-up of a local pedophilia scandal involving the Boy Scouts of America is set to appear on the PBS television show “Exposé” this evening. Dean S. Miller, who is spending this academic year at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, was at the time the executive editor of the Post Register in Idaho Falls, Idaho, a small-town newspaper with a circulation of 26,000. In 2005, the Post Register reported that Brad Stowell, a Boy Scouts leader, had molested not two boys, as had been...