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...film by acclaimed Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, opens with stunning visuals. Meirelles, whose past credits include the equally arresting “City of God,” ingeniously captures the sensation of being infected by the white blindness that mysteriously afflicts the film’s urban population. Shot in natural, almost milky tones, “Blindness” enjoys a visually striking and promising start—but this promise is only ephemeral. As the film progresses, the initially creative cinematography becomes tacky and ostentatious while the excitement of the storyline wanes exponentially. Ultimately...
...plight of the poor is forgotten” in the history of the ’60s and in important modern policy decisions. A panel of current organizers in Harvard’s black community and in Newark discussed these issues after the film. The organized urban violence of the 1960s was most often a response to both civil discrimination and poverty in the black community, the panelists said. According to Walter C. Carrington ’52, the first student member on the board of directors of the NAACP and a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria...
...doing enough to protect students on campus. These accusations are both unfounded and shortsighted. Rather than blame others, students should instead reexamine their own decisions when it comes to safety on campus. Harvard students have increasingly taken for granted the relative security of Harvard’s urban campus, leaving dorm room doors unlocked and walking around campus alone at all hours of the night. These activities only serve to increase students’ chances of becoming victims of crime, and students themselves should be taking further precautions to prevent that from happening. The university has worked to accommodate...
...homes and create the new jobs in Riyadh, Jeddah and Damman? Saudi officials say these cities have already grown too fast, and in too haphazard a fashion - the population of the capital alone has doubled in a decade, to 4 million. Building new cities will prevent uncontrolled urban sprawl and congestion. "We just need these new cities," says Khaled al-Faisal, governor of the Mecca region. "There is no other...
...seem to think the unionized junior artists no longer gel with the contemporary settings of their films. These artists were more in demand when films with socialistic messages set in rural India were the norm, but now movies and TV shows are increasingly about an upwardly mobile, young and urban India. As a result, producers have been hiring college students, aspiring models or even foreigners if the production is supposedly situated abroad. Trade analyst Nahta says there is also a concerted but underhand attempt by producers to break the existing workers' union. "They say the federation bullies them and dictates...