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Filmmaking is not an art form that breeds responsibility. This, admittedly, is not too profound a statement, but it certainly highlights a trait valued in the public’s judgement of films made by industry-proclaimed “auteurs”—excess. This came to mind when I looked at part of the Brattle Theatre’s slate for the weekend—two matinee screenings of Michael Cimino’s famous disaster Heaven’s Gate...
...Schiavo case has provoked a passionate American conversation, which is taking place on a more profound level than the simple yes and no answers of the polls. Yes, the vast majority disdain the politicians who chose to exploit the case. And yes, a solid majority would not want their own lives prolonged in a similar situation. But the questions that cut closest to home are the family issues. What would you do if Terri Schiavo were your daughter? Why couldn't Michael Schiavo just give custody over to the parents? What do we do about custody in a society where...
...powerful was his vision that even his death, while it occasioned profound mourning among at least a billion people worldwide, cried out to be interpreted in Christological terms. After all, he had already turned his life's final decade into an object lesson in the dignity of suffering, whereby a stooped shuffle and a slurred voice could be understood, as he once wrote, as an extended moment of "transcendence," in which supporters glimpsed the glory of Christ's sacrifice for humanity. Similarly, so incandescent was his faith that believers, through tears, could easily understand his death not as an ending...
That may sound like a simple enough statement, but it represents a profound revolution in the way the Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker--long the powerhouse of Silicon Valley--does business. Forty years ago this April, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that given advances in transistor miniaturization, computer processors should double in speed every 18 months. Not only did Moore's law become the most trustworthy truism in technology, it was also the rock on which all Intel marketing was founded. Why did you need a PC with an Intel Pentium II processor? Because it was four times as fast...
Summers described the University’s proposed expansion in Allston as a “profound opportunity”—both for improving laboratory facilities and for shaping the future face of Boston...