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...yard touchdown catch of his own in last week’s game against Cornell that garnered him Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors.Somehow lost in the fanfare surrounding this wideout carousel is junior Matt Luft. After two years under the wing and shadow of fellow Thousand Oaks High School graduate Corey Mazza ’07-’08, Luft has quietly developed into a star, and Harvard senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti’s favorite option.“I know everyone’s talked about depth, but the one guy who?...
...model for connecting films with audiences. Last month, Michael Moore released his latest documentary, Slacker Uprising, online and free of charge. For Magnolia, premiering Wang's film on YouTube provides a unique solution to an unusual challenge. Late last year, Wang was completing work on two films: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Princess of Nebraska, both adaptations of stories by Yiyun Li that focus on three generations of Chinese natives now living in America. Prayers, which was released in select art houses in September, tells the tale of an elderly father visiting his divorced daughter in America...
...opening scene of director Wayne Wang’s new film “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” suitcase after suitcase slides slowly down an airport conveyer belt in a methodical, mundane rhythm. The scene’s sparse style illuminates the beauty and bleakness of everyday life. And while Wang’s film, which quietly examines a strained father-daughter relationship, is no plot-thriller, it does lull the audience into a peaceful state with its calming, metrical scenes and restrained, spare dialogue. “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers?...
...groups base their ratings on the health of a wild fish's population (the popular bluefin tuna is restricted), along with the impacts of fish-farming operations. (Fast-growing oysters can be farmed sustainably, but salmon can't.) They also take into account fishing practices: catching bigeye tuna with thousand-hooked longlines can result in the unintended death of nearby fish. The hope is that by voting with their chopsticks, consumers can motivate businesses to act more sustainably. Unfortunately, my beloved octopus is now a no-go--but at least I'll always have Tokyo...
...simple question, "What will happen if a large number of these subprime loans default? What will happen to banks and other financial institutions? Or was it only greed that made everybody ignore that what is happening now could ever happen. Did no one take into account that thousand of families would have their lives turned upside down - virtually overnight - if this scheme went wrong?" Frederik Steenbuch, OSLO