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...proposal would end an existing requirement that undergraduates studying abroad or at other U.S. schools take at least two courses in their concentration, and it would sift some responsibility for students programs from Harvard departments to Le Faculty...
...emotional arias and the camera's delirious glissandos. Now each has made a film about political kidnaping in a turbulent country-Chile in Missing, Italy in Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man-and has approached the subject at a more measured pace. Without the stylistic filigrees, one can undistractedly sift for political meaning. The effect is like curling up late at night with the latest report from Amnesty International: you may have nightmares, but first you will fall asleep...
...that Glen and Carolyn got out of the same cab at work this morning? And Carolyn was wearing the same dress she had on yesterday?" In gossiping about, say, an office adultery, gossipers will weigh and sift and test the morals involved. Gossip is intimate news (perhaps even false news), but it is also a procession of ethical problems. In gossiping, people try to discover their own attitudes toward such behavior-and the reactions of others. It is also a medium of self-disclosure, a way of dramatizing one's own feelings about someone else's behavior...
Possible Opening #1: Defensive Apologies--They'll tell you that art imitates life and that popular art reflects popular life. They'll tell you that we create our own heroes according to our needs. With the doggedness of archaeologists. film scholars sift through the remains on the cutting room floor and try to figure out just how that celluoid reflects...
...either had committed only minor crimes or had been mistakenly detained. The rest he divides evenly between "ordinary criminals" and those who are "almost indescribably dangerous." The challenge, of course, is determining which are which. Associate Attorney General Rudolph Guiliani says that the only way to sift through the cases is to listen to the tape recordings of the initial interviews between the refugees and INS officers made last year-a time-consuming process-and that Shoob is rushing the Government. Shoob claims he is only forcing the sluggish INS to free those for whom the Government cannot make...