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...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...
...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
...lists. Top Ten Films of All Time, Top 14 Movie Villains, Top 25 Serbian Horror Flicks-the combinations are endless. In his latest, Have You Seen...?, film critic and historian David Thomson, author of the singular The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, delivers a binding-busting list of one thousand flicks you need to check out. Not that he likes-or even respects-all of these movies. Rather, he writes, "This is a book created to meet the question frequently asked of anyone with a reputation for knowing about films. It's 'What should I see?' So Have You Seen...
...painted eyes of a thousand commemorated individuals looking down on us from the walls of dining halls, libraries, and common rooms may do more than chronicle the university’s history. “They construct a male Harvard, an important Harvard, an ancient Harvard,” historian and University Professor Laurel T. Ulrich says. “Harvard has done so little to acknowledge its broader history...