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Murnau, one of the greatest silent-film directors, went to Tahiti (with documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty) to make this ethnographic idyll spiked with Hollywood-style melodrama. A boy who has fallen in love with a local princess dives for pearls in a deep-sea grotto that is guarded by a possessive shark. The simple story is told with rapturous visual poetry that captures both nature's beauty and its threat. Murnau, 42, had his own rendezvous with tragedy: he died in a car crash shortly before Tabu's release...
Some Harvard thesis-writers travel to Tibet to go on archeological digs. They go to Tahiti to study economics. They go to Cuba to read literature. But some members of the class of 2005 never made it further than Widener. These seniors chose to write their theses at Harvard, about Harvard...
...Zealand, on July 10. A crew member was killed in the blast. The flagship of Greenpeace, the environmental group that opposes nuclear testing and the killing of whales, the vessel was due to lead a flotilla of ships into the waters around Mururoa Atoll, 700 miles southeast of Tahiti, to protest French atomic tests in the area. As the Rainbow Warrior lay prow up in the harbor, New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, himself a vocal opponent of nuclear testing, deplored the incident as "a major criminal act with terrorist overtones...
...Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior. "There were some loud bangs, the boat shook and we sank within four minutes." The 130-ft. converted trawler was berthed in Auckland, New Zealand, last week, preparing to lead a protest of French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll, 700 miles southeast of Tahiti. Two explosions ripped a 6-ft. by 8-ft. hole in the hull, scuttling the vessel stern first in 24 ft. of water and killing Ship Photographer Fernando Pereira. The twelve other people reportedly on board escaped unharmed...
...Crimson editor Nicholas M. Ciarelli ’08. Nick is affiliated with our well-regarded educational institution, and he’s male, but there’s no reason either of these things had to be true—he could have been a porpoise from Tahiti and none of his thousands of daily viewers would have been the wiser. Think Secret was and is popular because its content was accurate, interesting, and well-informed...