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Filmed with great patience and skill, and accompanied beautifully by a rich, haunting soundtrack, Hereniko’s picture brilliantly captures the tension slowly consuming an island torn between its loyalty to deeply abiding tradition and submission to an ever-encroaching modernism...
...tension and anger that pervaded last week’s meeting was largely absent from yesterday’s continuation of last Tuesday’s session...
...attended by about 500 professors—many faculty continued their attacks on Summers’ leadership of the University, criticizing the lack of trust they say he has fostered between himself and faculty. However, supporters of Summers also spoke at today’s meeting, which lacked the tension and anger that marked last Tuesday’s discussion...
...real reason Ex Machina is so addictive, however, is that its characters are likeable and multi-dimensional. Mitchell’s dreadlocked deputy mayor generates much of the political tension, arguing with Mitchell over school vouchers and gay marriage. Kremlin, Mitchell’s grizzled Russian mentor, strains their relationship by trying to get Mitchell out of politics and back on the jetpack. Even Mitchell’s mother appears for a few quirky-yet-tender moments, when the story flashes back to his childhood...
After Tuesday’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting, several individuals contacted the editorial board, requesting to pen their own opinions on the tension between the Faculty and University President Lawrence H. Summers. Interestingly, the feedback that The Crimson received—both the op-ed submissions and letters to the editor—overwhelmingly voiced support for both Summers and the comments he made on women and science at a recent conference of the National Bureau of Economic Research. In seeking to balance the opinions on the page, we contacted several professors who were some...