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...necessary for politicians from all quarters, including the U.N., to get involved to calm the situation? Islam has become a political ideology, and Westerners need to stop appeasing its adherents in the belief that the problem lies with a few extremists. Gerry Pandarts Lincoln, England Cartoons Without Politics "Tumult in Toontown" [Feb. 20] noted that none of the three animated feature films nominated for Academy Awards (Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride and Howl's Moving Castle) used computer-generated imagery (cgi) and reasoned that resentment of animation veterans toward cgi could...
...Tumult In Toontown" [Feb. 20] noted that none of the three animated feature films nominated for Academy Awards (Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride and Howl's Moving Castle) used computer-generated imagery (CGI) and reasoned that resentment of animation veterans toward CGI could have played a part. That is simply not true. CGI films had been nominated every year since the Animation Feature category was created in 2001. The awards are not about box-office grosses or whether a film is CGI or not; the awards are about quality. Without question...
...Harvard hopeful, Clay R. Hane, a senior at Cary Academy in North Carolina, said, “I don’t think it would be a major make or break.”Most commonly in interviews, high school seniors said that regardless of the tumult that has surrounded Summers, a Harvard education is still a Harvard education. “Academics, which is the primary reason I would attend Harvard, are not affected by Larry Summers,” said one applicant, Jeff N. Fox, a senior at Randolph High School in New Jersey...
...blind to the tumult that defined much of Summers’ tenure. The list of indictments is not short. A public spat with former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 led to the departure of one of the dynamos of the African and African American Studies department. Then came Summers’ remarks linking proponents of a divestment movement from Israel with anti-Semitism “in their effect, if not their intent”; this accusation alienated professors who felt Summers was effectively squelching debate...
Lawrence H. Summers continued to enjoy strong support at Harvard’s professional schools throughout the tumult of the past three weeks, according to administrators and professors outside the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...