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...self-described film geek, Shaye, who's also an attorney and former Fulbright Scholar, founded New Line in 1967 with a plan to distribute art films. But over the ensuing 40 years, the studio has amassed a library of commercial hits including the Nightmare on Elm Street series, Rush Hour, Wedding Crashers and the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy to emerge as Hollywood's leading mini-major studio. (New Line is owned by Time Warner, which is also the parent of Time Magazine and Time.com). In that time, Shaye directed just one film, Book of Love, a bawdy...
Eminent literary critic M.H. Abrams ’34 addressed a rapt crowd in Lamont Library yesterday, emphasizing the value of appreciating poetry by reading it out loud. The bespectacled scholar spoke to an overflowing crowd in a lecture entitled “On Reading Poems Aloud” in the library’s Forum Room. “Read the lines aloud so as to savor the enunciation of the sweet sound,” he instructed his audience. “Can you taste the consonants? You should,” he added, after the crowd?...
...million to transport the bells to Moscow and to finance their replacements. According to the Danilov Monastery’s website, the return of the bells represents “the restoration of historical truth in relation to the Russian faithful.” “As a scholar of religion, the religious aspects of this process are fascinating,” Eck said...
Incoming Canadian Rhodes scholar Daniel J. Wilner ’07 identified a connection between the Rhodes scholars’ complaints and the grumblings of students here: “In the case of Harvard, just like with the Rhodes, there are kids who might apply and go because it’s Harvard, not because it’s necessarily the right choice for them. That’s something some Harvard students might be able to identify with, or at least understand.” Those disappointed with their experience “might feel that they...
...current Rhodes scholar Peter P.M. Buttigieg ’04, though, who answered affirmatively when he asked himself whether he wanted “to spend two years in a rainy country doing academic work in a quirky, ancient institution,” the possibility of his having gotten a “raw deal” never arose; the small annoyances associated with Oxford have not impacted his experience. He indicated, in an e-mail, a faith in the ability of high-achieving university students to maintain a balanced perspective: “When...