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Everybody who makes documentaries (and after writing and directing 37 of them, I am among them) gets tired of their constraints. That?s especially true of the talking heads, experts and eyewitnesses commenting upon whatever the film?s topic, whether lightsome or lugubrious, may be. These people often offer useful information and, occasionally, blinding insights. And since the filmmaker frequently does not have all the raw, original footage he requires to tell his story, they are sometimes the only source available to fill in his narrative gaps...
...different culture, we immediately relate to the 9th century provincial governor Taira no Kanemori ("Though I try to keep it secret,/ my deep love/ shows in the blush on my face./ Others keep asking me/ - Who are you thinking of?"). We recall the first rush of our own romances upon reading the 10th century aristocrat Fujiwara no Yoshitaka ("I always thought/ I would give my life/ to meet you only once,/ but now, having spent a night/ with you, I wish that I may/ go on living forever"). And we sympathize with the 9th century court poet Ki no Tsurayuki...
...Right to Serve Tour, which seeks to protest the discriminatory policy. Over the course of a week in May, the tour will travel across the country and stop at various locations where an openly gay Harvard student will attempt to enlist in the military. Accompanying students will, upon the student’s presumed refusal for enlistment, stage a sit-in at these recruiting stations in the name of meaningful change. Though immediate change may be unlikely, we hope that efforts such as these by our students and administrators will strengthen the fight against “Don?...
...Fitzsimmons says that the personal interactions encountered upon visiting are often “absolutely critical” to minority students’ decisions to attend Harvard. For these prospective students, the opportunity to view Harvard through the eyes of someone of their own racial group helps de-mystify the Ivy League experience...
...territory, refugee camps endure, preserved by the same leaders vehemently demanding a refugee right of return. This singular focus on the dispossession of the Palestinian Arabs and the culpability of Israel, without acknowledgment of the injustice done to these refugees by their own leaders or of the violence inflicted upon Jewish populations in Muslim countries, hinders constructive discussion of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Commemorating the Nakba has become another means of mourning the creation of the State of Israel, an event that Hamas and many of Israel’s neighbors still seek to reverse today through rocket attacks, kidnappings...