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Samuel Myat San ’06 applied to Harvard as a senior in junior college back home in Singapore. Admitted under early action, the 18-year-old Myat San deferred his acceptance, opting instead to spend a year-and-a-half seeing the world, getting in shape, making friends and, oh yes, learning how to use grenades...
Though Daniel and Schmidt were ambivalent about their newfound role as teachers (“We’re not equipped nor educated in teaching people to be sound artists in general,” Schmidt said), the listening sessions offered a rare glimpse into the artists that helped shape the Matmos sound, which has reached unsuspecting ears worldwide in the form of production work on Bjork’s album Vespertine...
Kidwai says she has no plans to leave India. "In the U.S., I may have brokered bigger deals, but here, it's much more at the cutting edge of reform, the ability to influence, to shape." --By Michele Orecklin. Reported by Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi
...ites, Sunnis, former officers, monarchists and the London-based I.N.C., led by Ahmad Chalabi--the longtime favorite of hard-liners in Washington--continue to jockey for advantage. Last week, for the third time, a conference designed to bring all the opposition groups together so they could agree on the shape of a post-Saddam Iraq was canceled. The various groups still can't agree on how many delegates should be at the meeting (rescheduled for London in December) or how they should be chosen...
...These tantalizing questions were hard to answer. For decades, Shaw's action classics have been seen, if at all, in muddy bootlegs that often chopped or squeezed the wide-screen panoramas down to TV shape and dubbed the Mandarin dialogue into an Anglicized cacophony of kung fu grunts and maniacal giggles. Most of the company's other films have not been seen at all; they have slept in the Shaw vaults, taken for dead. The studio's reputation decayed too; it was thought to be the stuffy monolith whose primacy was usurped in the '70s by the upstart Golden Harvest...