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...Then again, you never know how serious von Trier is. He created the super-austere Dogme 95 style of filmmaking, which was copied by many even as he outgrew and denounced it. His last picture, The Boss of It All, was a comedy with a sour taste, so you can't be sure that Antichrist is as dead-serious as it appears. Maybe the movie is a big deadpan joke, an antic-hrist. What's certain is that serious film people on several continents will be talking about von Trier's latest affront, defending or deriding it, finding it hard...
...correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty, religion is more than just a beat. Hagerty was raised as a Christian Scientist and grew up listening to her grandmother's stories of healing illnesses and serious injuries through prayer. As an adult, Hagerty became a Protestant Christian after experiencing her own encounter with a divine presence, a moment she describes as "spooky." In her new book, Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality, Hagerty goes on a professional and personal journey to discover whether science can explain religious phenomena like healing or mystical experiences - and ultimately whether it can prove...
...Though the placement of nutrition facts is a very serious issue, one place where they should have remained in the open is at the dessert table. Common sense dictates that desserts should be consumed in moderation. Placing calorie counts next to desserts should not be observed as a paternalistic action of imposing guilt upon diners, but rather a disclosure of nutritional content of an extra meal option...
...Harvard begins to confront its most severe budgetary and financial contraction in a generation, administrators in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have unveiled $77 million of budget cuts, slashing everything from paid consultants to hot breakfast in the dining halls. FAS leaders should be lauded for making serious budget cuts, given that many of them will be painful. However, a number of the small cuts—notably the significant reductions in Harvard’s shuttle service to the Radcliffe Quadrangle and the layoffs of House-based administrative staff—would save only a small amount...
...Still, it is neither serious nor intellectually honest to point out problems with the proposed cuts without providing alternatives. In fact, when FAS administrators presented their plans at a public forum in Quincy House, they seemed to invite—albeit with a hint of defensiveness—suggestions about other cuts, an invitation that came after a student asked why top administrators are not taking pay reductions...