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...list of influences on Pixar's new film Up, from Dumbo to The Wizard of Oz, Richard Corliss overlooks another, earlier source of inspiration [May 18]. This is animation pioneer Winsor McCay's 1921 short film, in his Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend series, called The Flying House, in which the protagonist dreams that her husband adds wings and a propeller to their home and flies away into the universe to escape foreclosure. M. Thomas Inge, ASHLAND...
...single laser treatment, he wasn't just skeptical - he was ticked off. The Atlanta-based designer considers the work he has inked on everyone from rapper 50 Cent to champion boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr. to be pieces of art, almost sacred, so marketing them as disposable was nothing short of an insult...
...said Donahue, a psychology concentrator. Donahue said she was surprised Mancuso recognized her on their second date—she had cut 20 inches of her hair off and gotten her ears pierced in the days between their first and second dates. Luckily, Mancuso said he liked her short hairstyle, and during the following summer, Donahue remained in Cambridge to work for the Harvard Summer School Activities Office and the couple spent much of their time together. Over the summer, the couple traveled together to both Florida and Provincetown, Mass, which Donahue—an active member of both...
...member of our community studying or engaging in research in Cuba. The U.S. government, especially over the past five years, did both,” Jorge I. Dominguez, Vice Provost for International Affairs, wrote in an email. “Visas for Cuban scholars to visit the U.S. for short periods were characteristically denied; U.S. barriers to student research or study in Cuba became very high,” added Dominguez, who is also co-chair of the Cuban Studies Program. The other co-chair and Assistant Professor of Social Medicine Arachu Castro-San Juan said that because the relationship...
...terms of actual voting, the Democrats are still short of their 60-vote majority, given that Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd are on indefinite medical leave and are only likely to return for the most important votes. Not to mention the fact that governing the Senate, as former majority leader Trent Lott once put it, is like herding cats. The Dems have such a wide umbrella that finding issues that unite both ends of the 60-vote spectrum can be tough...