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When French director Michel Gondry arrived at MIT to screen his latest film, “Be Kind Rewind,” the very first thing he wanted to do was meet a girl named Star Simpson. Simpson was arrested on Sept. 21, 2007 at the airport for wearing a circuit board with LED lights, which airport employees mistook for a bomb. To law enforcement, “she seemed out of her mind,” Gondry said in an interview at MIT on Feb. 4, “and I can really relate to her craziness...
...Representatives to the UC are elected not to further promote or protect the institutional interests of the UC but rather to represent the interests of the student body. If the UC interests in fact coincided with those of its constituents, then it would not be loath to screen its reviewers. The UC, however, is far from ideal. Paralyzed by petty politicking and internal chumminess, this student government seems only to further the student body’s issues if doing so simultaneously furthers the UC. Allowing the UC to pick the five students (two of whom will be from...
...didn’t get to carry a gun, but her work did involve classified information—and she’s still not entirely sure what the consequences of her research really were. “We had two computers under the desk and just one screen,” McCulla says. “There was a little box with a switch on it and hundreds of times a day, we’d push the switch and it’d flip from one computer to the other. We’d have two separate email...
...obligated to think that way, especially when it comes to big-ticket items like TVs. Philips' LCD-TV business is losing money in the insanely competitive U.S. market, under pressure from the likes of Sony and Samsung. Globally, profit margins in the $15 billion consumer-electronics business are flat-screen thin. With TVs accounting for about 60% of sales at the former CE division, "if you look at [Philips'] strategic targets--stable growth and higher profitability," says SNS Securities' analyst Victor Bareo, "then the core business of consumer electronics is not really a good...
...huddled in a cold rain almost eight years ago for the longest election night on record. Some of Obama's most popular lines of the night bashed President Bush as the crowd - estimated variously at between 15,000 to 30,000 - listened rapturously for almost an hour. A jumbo screen broadcast his image down Congress Avenue, not far from the city's nightclub district, and one homemade sign read: "The Beginning Is Near...