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...slickly packaged DVD boxed set that is a thing of wonder in a country where original DVDs are more difficult to find than their pirated counterparts. It is all the more to be cherished given that she now spends rather more time producing movies through her company, Kalyana Shira Films, than she does directing them. Indonesia needs more taboo tacklers like this...
...Shira Gabriel, a psychologist at the University at Buffalo, conducted a series of three studies on celebrity worship, focusing specifically on how admiration from afar may affect the admirer's self-esteem. "It was seven or eight years ago during the Michael Jackson trial," she says, "and I was fascinated by the people who were obsessed with him, who flew to the trial and made banners. I thought, What would bring somebody to do something like that?" One possible reason, which Gabriel decided to explore, was the vicarious pleasure that regular people get from following the lives of famous people...
...getting to experience that.” The 24 junior inductees are Isha Agarwal, Charles R. Drummond, Marta M. Figlerowicz, Marina Fisher, Rachel J. Gottlieb, Matthew J. Hall, Kevin M. Jonke, Elissa Leechawengwongs, Paul J. R. Leopando, Samuel F. Lichtenstein, Kyle A. Mahowald, Alexander W. Marcus, Andrew C. Miller, Shira A. Mitchell, Noah L. Nathan, Ravi B. Parikh, Charles J. Redlick, Julia E. Schlozman, Tharanga N. Senaratne, Malorie N. Snider, Zeba A. Syed, Allison K. Turbiville, Jimmy C. Yang, Lauren E. Yapp. —Staff writer Alissa M. D’Gama can be reached at adgama@fas.harvard.edu
...Shira Kaplan ’08—a panelist who said she served some of her “best two years” in Israeli intelligence—said the exhibit added to an existing mountain of anti-Israeli rhetoric...
...Shira Kaplan ’08 is a government concentrator at Kirkland House. She is currently completing her thesis on Iran’s crisis behavior in the post-revolutionary era. She served in the Israeli Defense Forces for two years before coming to Harvard...