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...every Harvard graduate knows, it is not the brand-name of international renown, the consistent media scrutiny of its miniscule acceptance rate, the rockstar faculty, or its students’ composite SAT scores that set Harvard apart from its “peer” institutions. Indeed, it is rather our uncanny ability to predict the future that makes Harvard graduates first among equals...
...because, for most of its history, Cannes has been defined by its love-hate relationship to America and American movies. This itchy feeling is an acknowledgment that the U.S. is the unquestioned superpower both in politics and movies. The festival enjoys and exploits the Hollywood stars whose glamorous renown brings so much free publicity. The slow march of a Tom Cruise or Clint Eastwood up the Grand Palais' famous red carpet, to the click of paparazzi cameras and the shouts of thousands of fans, is cinema's equivalent of a Broadway ticker-tape parade...
Harvard College consistently boasts a large and strong applicant pool, with one of the highest yield rates in the country, hovering around 80 percent. Many of the reasons for this are independent of student satisfaction, including Harvard’s reputation and its world-renown Faculty. As a result, Harvard is not pressed to improve student life as other schools are, and allows the administration to neglect certain aspects of the school that should be improved. The administration should not take advantage of the Harvard reputation in the recruiting process. Rather, it should work towards a constant improvement of student...
While May recalled Kennan’s remarkable ability as a negotiator and historian, combining the often mutually-exclusive spheres of political influence and academic renown, Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier ’60, offered a remembrance of the diplomat as a public speaker...
Greatness graced the portals of the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) on the evenings of Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5. On those two privileged nights, Im Kwon-taek, a filmmaker of unrivaled skill and international renown, was on the premises to host the HFA’s screening of two of his most recent films...