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...feel that all independent filmmakers worldwide face the same problems, or find themselves in the same situations. With regard to Chinese filmmakers like myself, there are two main problems: money, a problem shared by all filmmakers, but also censorship, which I face more heavily in China. The American independent film industry faces the same funding issues, but instead of censorship, they have to deal more with the market. Hollywood has a tendency to take over the world, in terms of market share. There are numerous Hollywood movies showing in China, many in theaters through official channels, other via pirated...
...passive, and I don't ever want to be. Nothing truly real or really true is ever flat, especially with regard to art. And music is, indisputably, an art. The tunes we love shouldn't be an unnoticed backdrop to whatever we decide to engage ourselves with noticing. I far prefer songs with meanings to which I can relate, so that when I sing along I am uttering words and thoughts and feelings which have a point relevant to my life. Points--not only in math--lead to lines and planes which define dimensions. And in the abstract reality which...
...intuit from the performances. Because Pacino plays him, Bergman is guaranteed a certain moral passion. (Think Hurricane Andrew as Carl Bernstein.) Meanwhile, Christopher Plummer plays Wallace as a man possessing not only a worldliness that might incline him to compromise with his corporate bosses but also an ample self-regard that would keep him mindful of his reputation--and one whose careful intelligence could well point him in either direction...
With this tremendous wealth comes a lot of opportunity--and a lot of power. Harvard can attract the best students, from every imaginable background, and admit them without regard to need or circumstance. It can entice the most promising and accomplished faculty with impressive salaries and a host of other benefits. It can maintain the nation's finest library system and still afford to keep its laboratories, dormitories, classrooms, and athletic and dining facilities in top condition. Taken together, these privileges--and make no mistake, they are privileges--allow Harvard to wield tremendous power...
Brooke M. Ellison '00, co-chair of disabled advocacy group EMPOWER: Encouraging Mankind to Perceive Others with Equal Respect, said that while Harvard has been accommodating with regard to her disability, she has more trouble off campus...