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...path to the supreme fictions of art. Of the pleasures cameras give us, the transfiguration of plain reality is the most indispensable. It implies that the world is more than it seems--which, after all, it may well be. It's a paradox too lovely to ignore and too profound to solve. These are six great photographers who have pointed the way into its deepest parts...
...influence on the academic field of operations management and on industrial practice has been profound," said Professor Marshall Fisher of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Jaikumar's doctoral adviser...
...recent interview, the venerable Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. '59 said he sees in current students the same profound sense of privilege present in the generation who came to Harvard after the Second World War. It was a time when Harvard became far more competitive than it had ever been--nationwide recruiting and the G.I. Bill ensured that--and students were far more serious and respectful than they were before or after...
...that changed, Fox said. Students came to feel there were profound problems with Harvard and with the world, and that it was incumbent upon them to change things. Over the decades, this feeling has waned, and, in an era when Harvard admissions are again more competitive than ever before, many have again become willing--grateful--to accept whatever Harvard has to offer...
...could be a hard sell for a film in which the megamanic star is an actor, for Pete's sake. But The Truman Show is the best kind of risk: make a good movie and see who comes. And Carrey will be waiting for them, with a performance of profound charm, innocence, vulnerability and pain. The early word on Truman is so positive that one exhibitor dares to invoke a hit 1994 film about another man out of his time: "This picture has Gump written all over...