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...budget surplus should go partly to education, Galbraith said, but not in order to increase the long-term productivity of the economy...
From November 2-13, the Harvard Film Archive is screening four films by acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yuan, one of the leaders of the freshest talents of what critics term the "6th Generation Directors." The series will include Seventeen Years, for which he won the award for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. Zhang will be in attendance at a special screening of Seventeen Years Friday at 8:00 p.m. Zhang would like extend his invitations to all interested students...
...more designers like Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren divert energy to lower-end lines, high fashion is in danger of becoming a sterile status symbol. On the other hand, many new designers working outside of the houses associated with haute couture are doing work that challenges the very term haute couture. This is the "apocalyptic" upheaval that causes many to predict the end of fashion. Yet, by all appearances, the shook-up world of current fashion will make the year 2000 a ripe crucible, separating the poseurs from the true artistes...
...Here's a hip new term for you. It seems that Robertson Davies' 1992 novel The Fifth Business (part of the Deptford Trilogy) is becoming all the rage again--specifically the meaning of that cryptic title. The Fifth Business refers to that all important character in a dramatic form that causes all the action to spiral out of control--without realizing it. Thus, you have the four "businesses"--the protagonist (Clinton), the antagonist (Starr), the love interest (Monica) and the figure presiding over the resolution (Hillary). And then you have the "fifth business"; in the Clinton scandal, it would...
With his characteristic attention to language, he used the term "co-equal branches of government" as an example of a constitutional inaccuracy...