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...films provide a glimpse of what a no-smoking--or low-smoking--Hollywood would be like. Producer Lindsay Doran, who once helped persuade director John Hughes to keep Ferris Bueller smoke-free in the 1980s hit, wanted to do the same for the leads of her 2006 movie Stranger Than Fiction. When a writer convinced her that the character played by Emma Thompson had to smoke, Doran relented, but from the way Thompson hacks her way through the film and snuffs out her cigarettes in a palmful of spit, it's clear the glamour's gone. And remember...
...Kurdish Iraq. "Why do I need permission to live in my own country?" said Walaa Matti, an Assyrian Christian who fled his home in Mosul and works in the business center of a hotel in Arbil. "I'm Iraqi, and this is my country, but I feel like a stranger...
...need permission to live in my own country?" said Walaa Matti, an Assyrian Christian who recently fled his home in Mosul and now works in the business center of a hotel in Erbil. "I'm Iraqi and this is my country, but I feel like a stranger...
...later published. It concluded with an explanation of what he meant when he called himself religious: "The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense...
Harvard’s campus is no stranger to stars from the design world. The late Le Corbusier designed the Carpenter Center and Walter Gropius designed the Harkness Graduate Center at the Law School. Most recently, Italian architect Renzo Piano has helped guide the Fogg Art Museum renovations and Stefan Behnisch has been tapped to design the science complex in Allston...