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Some critics might swat Angels & Demons with tepid adjectives - "bustling" and "fumbling" spring to mind - but the only review that really matters came in last weekend. L'Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of Vatican City, described this sequel to The Da Vinci Code as "more than two hours of harmless entertainment, which hardly affects the genius and mystery of Christianity" and "a video game that first of all sparks curiosity and is also, maybe...
...Brown book and Ron Howard's 2006 movie version. According to the director, the Holy See blocked his attempts to shoot scenes of Angels, another Brown novel, in the Roman churches where much of it is set. So Howard must have found L'Osservatore Romano's genial review an unexpected blessing, somewhere between a celebratory puff of white smoke and the mild penance of 10 Our Fathers and 10 Hail Marys. We also hear that the paper's gossip columnist, Father Guido Sarducci, praised Tom Hanks for looking surprisingly fit in swim trunks. (See Tom Hanks' top 10 hairstyles...
...commander of special-operations forces in Iraq, he sent troops returning to the theater back to their original neighborhoods - a system he has suggested for general infantry soldiers in Afghanistan as head of a recent task-force review...
...University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC) to support intra-faculty science initiatives, part of a $53 million university-wide funding level. Historically, HUSEC has allocated funds from the $53 million on a competitive basis as requests come in. HUSEC will work without a predetermined funding allocation. Rather, it will review funding requests, approving only those that are deemed critical to advancing the scientific priorities of the University...
...much as possible, and as leases expire, FAS will consolidate academic support space into Harvard-owned space. A review of all of FAS’s off-campus leases is currently underway, and further reductions in spending in this area are expected. While moves such as this will mean tighter quarters for some support staff, this step is necessary to free up resources to support core mission areas...