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...counterbalance the worst excesses. That's still not a given in Africa. Take Zimbabwe. Even five years ago, the country boasted one of the best judiciaries in Africa. Voters could make their voices heard, as they did in 2000 when they rejected a new constitution backed by President Robert Mugabe. The independent press was amongst the feistiest on the continent. Over the past few years, though, Mugabe and his henchmen have bludgeoned the opposition into near submission, rigged elections, closed down the independent press and forced most of the country's best judges into retirement. Mugabe, once hailed...
...Tommy, when he's not doing time at Rahway Correctional Facility, sings with neighborhood pal Nick (J. Robert Spencer) and looks out for a guy, one year younger, whom he calls "kid": Frankie Castelluccio (John Lloyd Young). Frankie's wife Mary (Jennifer Naimo) warns him: Mary: "With friends like these, maybe you should change your name to Sinatra." But he goes for Valli. Then Tommy's pesty friend Joe Pesci, yes, that one, hooks him up with Bob Gaudio (Daniel Reichard), a teenager who a few years before had a novelty hit called "Short Shorts." He wants music...
Derek Lamb, an Academy Award-winning animated film producer and one of Harvard’s first lecturers on film animation, died this month in Poulsbo, Wash. of cancer. He was 69. Lamb came to Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in 1964 after Robert G. Gardner ’48—who was then the coordinator for the Light and Communications workshops—saw Lamb’s animated short “The Great Toy Robbery.” “I was really rolling in the aisles...
...linebacker Matt Thomas, the team’s leader in tackles this season. Thomas, who missed his sophomore season in 2003 due to injury, will receive a medical redshirt and return for Harvard in 2006, during which he will serve as the 133rd captain of Harvard football. Senior safety Robert Balkema was the Crimson’s only second-teamer named yesterday. Harvard’s honorable mentions went to senior wide receiver Ryan Tyler, senior tight end Kelly Widman, and junior linebacker Ryan Tully, along with three sophomores: quarterback Liam O’Hagan, defensive end Brad Bagdis...
...discussion of his research last night, Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson proposed explanations for what he called the “black-white gap in violence,” arguing that much of such a gap is based on the environment in which an individual is raised rather than on race...