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...prodding ways. Perhaps one of the great ironies of Summers’ presidency will prove to be the stark contrast between his ability to develop a bold plan for Harvard and his decided failure in getting others to buy into that plan. Summers brought a penchant for controversy unseen in Mass. Hall ever before, stirring perhaps a half-dozen controversies that each would have been tenure-defining mishaps for his two immediate predecessors—Derek C. Bok, who served four times as long as Summers, and Neil L. Rudenstine, who served twice as long. Indeed, if the Summers presidency...
...Ahmad is eighteen. This is early April; again green sneaks, seed by seed, into the drab citys earthy crevices. He looks down from his new height and thinks that to the insects unseen in the grass he would be, if they had a consciousness like his, God. In the year past he has grown three inches, to six feetmore unseen materialist forces, working their will upon him. He will not grow any taller, he thinks, in this life or the next. If there is a next, an inner devil murmurs. What evidence beyond the Prophet's blazing and divinely inspired...
...their films to be produced and screened." But all too often creativity means leaving sensitive bits on the cutting-room floor. Moghadam agreed to make several edits to Maxx - the government found 140 "questionable" points in his 80-page screenplay - before it hit Iranian screens. Other directors alternate their unseen social projects with blockbuster family films that keep their names circulating back at home. But Panahi refuses either to self-censor or to sell out. Instead, he's on a one-man mission to project his country's social ills onto the big screen. "Every three years I make...
...tension driving Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti's latest work sounds familiar, it should. A down-and-out B-movie producer unwittingly signs on to make a fiercely critical film about the rise of an Italian media mogul turned Prime Minister. Efforts to finish the film are thwarted by unseen political and economic forces. And the Italian politician is so despised by his cinematic nemeses that they assign him a nasty moniker: the Caiman (a ferocious creature related to the alligator), which gives Moretti's movie - and the film inside it - its name. The reptile, of course, is intended to represent...
...first chapter, we’re in present day Manhattan. At a gala in the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrating a “Treasures of the Vatican” exhibit, four horsemen, swords and all, emerge from Central Park to nab one of the previously unseen artifacts...