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...Murs, a.k.a. The Class, Laurent Cantet's affecting portrait of a Paris junior high school teacher and his restless, demanding students. Immediately a cheer went up, as Cantet, his star Francois Begaudeau and the 24 kids in the movie swarmed onstage, beaming as if they'd all graduated summa cum laude. They kept smiling through Cantet's long, fond acceptance speech, then were joined by other cinema dignitaries - including Robert De Niro, Dennis Hopper and Faye Dunaway - who were there as presenters. Suddenly, les enfants de Cannes were movie stars, reveling in their group closeup...
...once poised and loose, technically excellent and creatively free. But technique and creativity haven’t always been easy for Redman to reconcile.While he was an undergraduate at Harvard, Redman led a double life. There was Redman the Phi Beta Kappa student who graduated with a summa cum laude degree in Social Studies and a spot at Yale Law School. And then there was Redman the saxophonist, who listened to jazz constantly and supposedly only practiced when he jammed with his friends at the Berklee College of Music or the New England Conservatory.And as far as Redman was concerned...
Kissinger’s career at the City College of New York was cut short when he was drafted into the U.S. armed forces during World War II. When the war ended, Kissinger resumed his academic career at Harvard, and graduated summa cum laude. Kissinger later became secretary of state and an influential negotiator throughout the Cold...
...doing what inspires me most—hanging out and helping my friends have a good time. They provide the thinking, I’ll provide the drinking.” If hospitality were a concentration, Bennett C. Braddock III ’08 would graduate summa cum laude...
Following his summa cum laude graduation from Yale in 1942, Stewart’s decades in academia saw him garner a litany of accomplishments. The achievements ranged from his published work on ancient religion, literature, and philosophy to his review and revival of Harvard University Press’s Loeb Classical Library, which publishes English translations of Greek and Latin texts...