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...practiced this same shameless generosity to students in his decades of service at Harvard, passed away in a hospice facility at 2 a.m. yesterday after years of declining health. He was 91. Walsh joined the Harvard police force in 1952 and rose to the position of captain sometime prior to 1967, according to his son Thomas E. Walsh, who could not remember the exact year of his father’s appointment. “The stories about him helping students were absolutely legion,” said Arthur G. Luongo, a former HUPD sergeant who worked for Walsh...
...need any radical physical transformation to inhabit her roles. British director Richard Loncraine—who previously directed film adaptations of Shakespeare and a made for TV movie about Winston Churchill—allows Zellweger to flourish in a quieter, more formal movie than she is accustomed to. His prior academic studies of sculpture seem influential in his directorial style; every shot of his is remarkably crafted. His frames are horizontal and narrow; the top of each seems to barely avoid truncating the upper limits of the scene, creating a kind of uncomfortable intimacy for the viewer. The camera shots...
West, Kanye boorishness of earns the sobriquet "jackass" from President Obama prior to a CNBC interview, news of which is tweeted by ABC's Terry Moran, after which said tweet is quickly apologized for and removed by ABC News because it was an "off-the-record" comment, after which video of the comment is posted by Politico's Ben Smith, after which said video is quickly removed by Politico because of something to do with being "respectful to a fellow news-gathering operation," but obviously there's no way such a thing can be kept hidden so here...
...work per week has been reduced this year. Wenger worked between seven and ten hours each week last year, but she can no longer put in the same number of hours due to policy changes and new hour allocations, she said. “They did e-mail us prior to the beginning of the semester that they would probably be limiting our weekly schedule to 6 hours,” she said. Other employers are taking similar courses of action to deal with constricted budgets. Ilya E. Luvish, the production services coordinator at Sanders Theater who handles hiring each...
...Network, pointed out to the Inter Press Service, “The ‘new’ procedures adopted by the Obama administration are not new at all; they appear to be exactly the same as the procedures created by the [George W.] Bush administration in response to prior court challenges by Guantanamo detainees...