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...Oscar contenders and other blockbusters.“The idea is to produce a scholarly account of film, to offer a platform where students, professors, and professionals can all contribute,” Whitaker says. During her tenure as president, Whitaker articulated that vision and used it to substantially strengthen the content and staff of a magazine that Bruce Jenkins, former curator of the Harvard Film Archive, has called “one of the finest student film publications in this country.” Under Whitaker’s leadership, the Cinematic began publishing bianually instead of once...
...housing, and other basic necessities is crucial to sustaining the benefits provided by Partners In Health. “The link of disease and poverty is proven,” said Agnes Binagwaho, another panelist and the executive secretary of Rwanda’s National AIDS Control Commission. To strengthen her claims, she presented maps that portrayed the size of continents based on malaria and HIV prevalence and deaths, along with income. Jim Y. Kim—a professor of medicine who worked with Partners in Health at its founding—moderated the event. Despite the gravity...
...military. Accompanying students will, upon the student’s presumed refusal for enlistment, stage a sit-in at these recruiting stations in the name of meaningful change. Though immediate change may be unlikely, we hope that efforts such as these by our students and administrators will strengthen the fight against “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” And when the backward policy is eventually ended in the name of social progressivism, we hope that Harvard’s central administration will welcome ROTC back onto our campus in the name...
...military establishment to prod Correa into a shakeup this month. He sacked his defense minister - his third in 14 months as President - along with other top brass. The new defense chief, Javier Ponce, has a long history as a critic of Ecuador's military and has promised to strengthen civilian control and transparency. Ecuador has also pledged to implement a long-delayed plan to beef up the state's border presence, which is almost non-existent beyond the army, and improve public services. On Thursday Correa announced that foreign lenders have agreed to forgive $30 million of Ecuador's debt...
...problems," says Stanley Lau, vice chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries. To lay off people, "you need to pay a huge amount in compensation." Nor is there any relief from surging raw-materials costs. And slowly but surely, the renminbi, China's currency, continues to strengthen--it's now 12% higher against the U.S. dollar than it was 18 months ago--making China's exports more expensive worldwide...