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...President Obama's first nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor approaches the bench with a number of firsts. If she is confirmed to the lifelong post, as is widely expected, Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic to sit on the high court, and she would also be the first Justice with Type 1 diabetes...
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...style study of French minorities in an enclosed environment that sets its own rules. The main tension - and there's plenty in the schemings of rival ethnic gangs - comes from the relationship of a young Arab (Tahar Rahim) and his aged Corsican mentor (Niels Arestrup). When asked at the post-show press conference if he was disappointed at getting second place, Audiard replied, "What's the problem? Isn't this a good prize?" It is, and honorably merited. Both of the big winners will be distributed in the U.S. by Sony Classic Pictures, which is likely to make...
...Advising Fortnight” programming will be serially reduced, downsizing from 72 events to 35, according to a document obtained by The Crimson on advising budget cuts. In addition, the head of undergraduate advising programming, Associate Dean Monique Rinere, will leave this summer for a new post at Columbia, and her post will likely be left vacant, according to two students on the student advisory committee. The advising office faces the “loss of one assistant dean,” whose responsibilities would have included overseeing new advising programs that would cater to athletes and international students, according...
...week. Federico Cortese—now leader of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and the New England String Ensemble—will replace James Yannatos, who first joined the HRO in 1964. An eight-member conductor search committee composed of students, faculty, and other stakeholders appointed Cortese to the post from a field of nearly 200 applicants. “The voices of the students in the orchestra were paramount in everything that we were doing,” said Jack Megan, director of the Office for the Arts and co-chairman of the search committee. The top candidates auditioned...