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...early as middle school. According to Fitzsimmons, the elimination of Early Action and the exemption of families with incomes under $60,000 from parental contribution to tuition are aimed to convince prospective students that Harvard “isn’t a club for the rich.” The importance of initiatives like these extend beyond Harvard’s walls, he said: “This is a clear message to about half of the population: you can go anywhere in the world,” regardless of financial and other barriers. The impact extends as well...
Interactions between the show’s characters bring out both the best and worst facets of individual performances. Alison H. Rich ’09 and Sam D. Stuntz ’10 play Dolly and Phil, siblings who endlessly needle the crotchety, self-pitying, Mr. Crampton. But where the wonderfully aggravating Rich activates Dichter’s angry stuffiness, Stuntz only deadens...
...Clandon’s two younger children, Dolly and Phil represent hyper-education gone wild. Phil, in particular, is a character rich with the kind of verbal weirdness that makes “You Never Can Tell” such an incisive comedy—he insists on calling the dentist Valentine a “gum architect” and frequently references his “knowledge of human nature”—but Stuntz doesn’t quite know what to do with Phil’s quirks...
...Rich grappled with Scripture and script decisions. Should he stick with one Gospel? The Magi are only in Matthew, the shepherds only in Luke, but both Magi and shepherds appear in the film. Rich's first draft did not include The Magnificat, the verses Mary sings when her cousin Elizabeth feels a child stirring in her own womb, because it didn't match Mary's character arc. When a nun advising the film weighed in on the importance of the passage to Catholics, Hardwicke incorporated some of the verses in a voice-over later in the story...
Collecting art used to be a rich man's sport, played by those whose bank accounts matched their passion for Picassos and Rembrandts. But times have changed. Now it's a spectacularly rich man's sport, as evidenced by the bidding frenzy that took place last week at Christie's in New York City, where $491 million worth of Impressionist and modern art changed hands--the priciest art auction in history. Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II sold for $87.9 million, obliterating the presale estimate of $40 million to $60 million. Three other Klimts--part...