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...Brad Silberling: It turns out Will and I shared a lot of the same memories of the show, and we thought with all these summer adventure films out there, what would set this one apart? And we thought there would be nothing funnier than if you brought back all these obstacles but then stuck the wrong group of people in there, who would make stupid choices. That's essentially what this is: A taboo version of the original show. We're the adults who were watching this show as children, now imagining what else could happen in the land...
...unthinkable that the world will not have a Dr. Peter Cai in the future,” Ye added. Anupriya Singhal ’09 and Cai were certified as CPR instructors together two years ago before becoming co-directors of Harvard Emergency Medical Services last summer. Although the group normally focused on training Harvard students, Cai decided to teach CPR to people in disadvantaged communities in Boston, Singhal said. “He wanted to build a sense of community in the organization, and he wanted the volunteers to understand the importance of what they were doing...
...President Hubert Humphrey during his bid for the presidency. In 1977 and 1978, Huntington served as coordinator of security planning for the National Security Council under President Jimmy Carter. After suffering from a stroke in 2006, Huntington entered a succession of nursing facilities in Boston. He relocated the following summer to a facility on Martha’s Vineyard. —Staff writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
Fredrik Fan Cheung-fung was born in Hong Kong in 1989. He did not witness the events of that restless summer; he never saw hunger strikes or tanks in the streets. But, he says, he inherited the legacy of the attack on student protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square that left hundreds, if not thousands, dead. Twenty years after the crackdown, just shy of his 20th birthday, Fan embarked on a 64-hour fast of his own, setting up camp outside a busy shopping center in Hong Kong's Times Square, some 1,240 miles (2,000 km) from Beijing...
...Remembering Tiananmen Square is a task Hong Kong people take seriously. This is the only Chinese city where the incident is openly discussed and publicly remembered. In the summer of 1989, some 1 million people took to the city's streets in support of the students. They've honored them every year since. But remembrance is an amorphous term, especially here. The solemnity of recollection is tempered by anger and fear - anger that China has not acknowledged the incident, and fear that heavy-handed suppression is not a thing of the past. "What happened 20 years ago could happen again...