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...Long before they ever met each other, these two were kindred spirits. Scorsese's films spoke with a tone that Ebert had never heard before, and Ebert was Scorsese's champion well before the director became a household name. As the two have grown old and famous together, this back-and-forth has become a compelling - perhaps even defining - dialogue in their careers. "We have never become close friends. It is best that way," Ebert writes in his introduction. "We talk whenever he has a new film coming out, or at tributes, industry events, or film festivals. We have dinner...
...It’s all about getting started,” he said. “There are a lot of statistics, but an important one is that 100 percent of start-ups that don’t start fail,” he said. Wenger also spoke about the difficulties associated with start-ups in particular. “Being able to handle failure well is an entrepreneurial requisite,” he said. Shankar G. Ramaswamy ’11 said he found Wenger’s words helpful in considering future developments for his own start...
Family and friends recalled Peter W. Cai ’10 as a compassionate and intelligent young man yesterday at a remembrance service in Memorial Church. Cai’s parents and girlfriend, Christine Li ’10, were among the many who spoke to the packed hall about their memories of the 20-year-old, who died from sudden cardiac arrest near Weld Boathouse on Saturday after completing the men’s race of the semiannual River Run. Quan Cai, Peter’s father, described walking with him in a stroller when he was a baby...
...organization has been a staunch advocate in some of America's most polarizing legal battles, including fights over Internet free speech, abortion and the separation between church and state. The ACLU's membership nearly doubled during her tenure, which ended when she stepped down earlier this year. Strossen spoke to TIME about her toughest sparring partners, the tension between national security and civil liberties and why the upcoming election is even more important than people may realize. Your father was a Holocaust survivor, and your organization famously represented Neo-Nazis' right to march in Skokie, Ill. Is it difficult...
...particular Palin’s view on scientific questions, including teaching creationism in public schools, which he described as “not consistent with a modern view of the world.”THE LONELY CAUSEBoth Mansfield and Ruth R. Wisse, professor of Yiddish and comparative literature, spoke at length about the difficulties facing Republican-voting faculty at Harvard.Mansfield estimated that within the 50-person government department, there are three or four conservative professors.“For a department that wants to teach politics, that’s outrageous,” Mansfield said...