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...news. As I've been yammering for ages in TIME's hallowed pages and on its spiffy web pages, a genuinely mature film culture should allow for the explicit expression of love (sex) as least as much as it does the explicit expression of death (violence). And once upon a more adventurous time in movies, such a freedom of expression seemed imminent. In the late '60s and early '70s, as American directors like Arthur Penn (in Bonnie and Clyde) and Sam Peckinpah (in everything) pioneered the use of gaudy, picturesque images of violence, European directors like Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango...
...that the Search Committee should knock all outsiders completely out of the race. Someone with enough potential could overcome these obstacles given enough time. But an insider—either an alum or a professor—has a big advantage. So don’t be surprised if, upon being introduced to the University, our new president’s first words are “it’s great to be back...
...barrage of media coverage and scrutiny descended upon Harvard’s former football captain this summer, fueling a domestic assault case where the victim urged prosecutors to drop charges, and friends, teammates—and the victim herself—rejected police’s version of the events.Yet, the prosecution charged ahead.Last Wednesday, just two days before the case was scheduled for trial, Cambridge District Court Judge George R. Sprague ’60 dismissed it, against the objections of the prosecutor. After months of speculation and rumor, it was finally over.On the cusp of graduation, the class...
Which is completely ironic, since the Oxbridge tradition of higher education, upon which Harvard College was self-consciously based, was formed in the 12th and 13th centuries partly in opposition to the University of Paris. The last adhered to the lazy continental practice of off-campus housing, where students would live in the city and connect with their teachers only at lectures. Instead, Oxford and Cambridge sought to develop residential colleges—what the founders of Harvard would later call “a real college” instead of the NYU-like nonsense—to foster student...
...Coolest Insurgent Act - Stealing almost $7 million from the main bank in Ramadi in broad daylight, then, upon exiting, waving to the Marines in the combat outpost right next to the bank, who had no clue of what was going on. The Marines waved back. Too cool...