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While the University unveiled—with great fanfare Friday—a new center to coordinate its efforts in stem cell research, Harvard officials remained silent over the weekend on the amount of funding the center would receive...
...Kerry isn't exactly thriving either. His campaign is experiencing something of a silent spring. Part of this is beyond his control and possibly beneficial to his cause: Iraq and the 9/11 commission have dominated the news and kept the President on the defensive. Another part has been tactical, intentional: Kerry's recent priorities have been fund raising (he brought in $13 million last week alone) and taking time to develop a careful strategy for the general-election campaign. "We're not going to allow George Bush or the press to dictate the pace of our campaign," an aide said...
...Yasujiro Ozu festival finishes up at the HFA, take a chance on this classic 1932 silent, a favorite of knowing Ozuphiles like director Wim Wenders, writer Phillip Lopate and movie critic Donald Richie. Like much Ozu, this film deals with the interplay within a family: raised in the suburbs, kids are bullied by better-off children. The bullies particularly delight in pointing out the father’s middle-management position. In retaliation, the kids become bullies themselves and begin protesting their parents’ mediocrity. The real treat, however, is live Benshi (narrators of silent films) narration by Midori...
...tired of those athletes that just sit there silent in section with no sign of brain activity. True, I want to cause bodily harm to the section champions who chip in their two cents every two minutes. And yeah, I guess there are non-athletes who don’t talk and a few athletes...
...some oblique yet ingenious way to match the subject matter of the class) now a shadow of their former shiny selves, not even fit to serve as breakfast for a particuarly voracious dog. Syllabi which once augured mastery of entirely new realms of knowledge now seem nothing but silent yet brutally-insistent task masters, as the prospect of covering an entire semester’s worth of dense readings looms ahead even as promising topics for research papers must be formulated...