Word: roberts
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...advice he dispenses to his insecure classmates. This counseling includes the gem: “Sometimes people say things and mean something else.” As might be expected, Charlie soon becomes a kind of mythic school hero, much to the chagrin of his principal, Mr. Gardner. Gardner (Robert Downey Jr.) is the lone dynamic character of the film. Downey plays the role so well that his double dislike of Charlie—both for upsetting his school and for pursuing his daughter Susan (Kat Dennings)—is palpable. Yelchin’s Charlie, in comparison, cannot...
...excitement at Casey’s appointment from a pool of over 200 original applicants. “When you hear Dr. Casey talk, you can’t help but feel his passion and enthusiasm for being the next President of DePauw University,” Jacqueline R. Roberts, director of biochemistry at DePauw, said in an e-mailed statement. Leslie R. James, director of the Black Studies Program at DePauw, concurred with Roberts’s assessment. “One thing that I appreciated and found outstanding, was the fact that he remembered the question that...
...team of researchers at Lewis and Clark College discovered how gecko feet “stick” to a surface, according to MSNBC. Karp and his colleague, MIT Professor Robert S. Langer, have turned this microscopic structure into a possible medical tool...
Civil rights luminary Robert P. Moses gave his audience a lesson in constitutional history yesterday, tracing the expansion of American civil rights from the founding fathers to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Speaking at the Institute of Politics, Moses described early interpretations of the U.S. constitution designed to protect the rights of slaveowners, and outlined the way in which reformers from Abraham Lincoln to the activists of the 1960s had attempted to expand the notion of constitutional rights, a process he said was still not finished. “We should embrace the constitutional reach...
...spoken. Directors in Hollywood and Bollywood, currently the first and second largest film industries in the world, hardly have to worry whether an ambulance will get stuck in the dirt and stall during their final day of shooting. But like the title of Franco Sacchi’s and Robert Caputo’s new documentary says, “This Is Nollywood.”The film was screened earlier this month at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts during their annual African Film Festival. It follows Emeruwa through the completion of “Check Point...