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...early work, Koudelka seemed to have trouble finding a theme. But the 1968 Russian invasion of Prague immersed him in the topics of upheaval and alienation that were to characterize his later work. He took to the streets, capturing events as they unfolded, and when his shots were smuggled out and published anonymously, they received international acclaim. Since 1970, he has lived in exile from his native country, training his lens mostly on modern Europe's complex landscapes and honing a stark, desolate style. But it isn't all gloom: whatever his subject matter, Koudelka's photographs are marked...
...country first given a day off for V-Day. That may have been because the Soviet Union, now approaching its 50th anniversary, had little else besides the defeat of Hitler to be proud of. So, the official drums started beating up the Single-Handed-Soviet-Victory-Over-Fascism theme. The worse things went in this country, the more graphic the war stories dominating Soviet TV and cinema screens each spring, the state sparing no effort to sell its tale of how "the people rallied around the Party during the Hitlerite invasion and saved the world." The point, of course...
These past few weeks I have spoken with a number of colleagues about a broad array of opportunities facing the University. One recurrent theme has been the observation that we require increasingly sophisticated and effective administrative capacity, commensurate with the University's growing scale, complexity, and ambition. I have been encouraged to consider, in particular, how the central administration can enhance its responsiveness to the needs of our faculties, schools, and other units, and achieve a more integrated approach to the challenges presented by new ventures in science, Allston, and other areas that will call for more collaboration across traditional...
...sense, the theme of director Curtis Hanson's movie, which he co-wrote with Eric Roth (Munich, The Good Shepherd) - a writer with a gift for patient, novelistic complexity - is the education of Huck Cheever. Even though that process proceeds via a certain amount of boy-girl, father-son clichés, the movie does not have a tired feeling about it. In part that's because Huck, who needs to get together enough money to pay his entrance fee for the World Championship of Poker and can only do so by "playing with the guppies" in small stakes games...
...slightly more common privilege of watching Poonsters) throw pies into the rubber trousers of their teammates, throw water balloons into baskets on their teammates’ heads, and race to grab a flag soaking in green slime in an inflatable pool. The “Double Dare” theme music, rather than the songs of OK Go, played in the background. Onlookers described themselves as quite puzzled. “I have absolutely no idea what this is,” Zachary A.Y. Pollinger ’09 said. “I’m just dumbfounded...