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Channeling Henry Fonda's balky geezer in On Golden Pond (though he's robust where Fonda was frail), Walt is clearly destined for interracial rehab; the movie's story is the thawing of this great slab of mean. He warms to Tao, who could use some foster-fathering; to Tao's well-adjusted sister Sue (Ahney Her); and to their whole adorably folkloric clan. But Walt needs more than living among the Hmong. As a family elder tells him, "You're not at peace...
...from simple. The microfinance industry, for instance, may be resistant to some of the volatility now plaguing financial markets. That's because those who borrow in small amounts from micro lenders often work on projects unaffected by large-scale global banking travails. Recent studies have confirmed the robust reliability of borrowers at the bottom end of the global income scale. The world's poorest are affected, though, by commodity price volatility and fluctuating food and fuel costs. Mary Ellen Iskenderian, CEO of Women's World Banking, a global network of 54 microfinance institutions and banks in 30 countries, spoke...
Property-marking systems are fairly common, but few are robust enough to link a suspect to both the booty and the crime scene. Indelible but normally invisible, SmartWater can be painted onto valuable items or rigged as a spray to tag thieves or intruders. And because each bottle contains a unique permutation of up to 30 chemical compounds, any trace of it can be incontrovertibly matched to an ownership database as well as to the time and place of a recorded crime...
...think we’re making the natural link to students who are in the House community and are very interested in doing the same type of work,” Nelson said. “I actually think it would be a much more dynamic, robust program.” —Staff writer Abby D. Phillip can be reached at adphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...Harvard students can face organizational challenges to pursuing new media academically. J. D. Connor ’92, the concentration advisor for the VES Department, explains that often when students are interested in multimedia design, “they’ve gone to MIT, which has a really robust media studies program,” whereas “Harvard tends not to have a lot of that.” Though the VES concentration’s film/video track allows students to study a variety of new media concepts such as animation and 3D rendering, Connor says that...