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...Board of Directors. Juma said he believed yesterday’s event was a chance for Harvard students to get behind the movement of using technology to improve conditions in impoverished countries. “I think an interesting outcome of this event would be to see how the various student organizations that have sponsored this event can do something substantive,” he said. Among the sponsoring organizations was the Harvard College Global Hunger Initiative, a new club to which Juma is an adviser. Founded by Eshwan Ramudu ’10 and Sarah...
...that kosher foods tend to be more organic. Abby E. Schiff ’11, Matthew P. Cavedon ’11, and Sarah J. Hallett ’11 coordinated the event. Planning for the dinner started at the beginning of the year as students sought to unite various religious groups. “We thought Thanksgiving would be a perfect time because the ultimate principles are the same across religions,” Hallett said. The emphasis of the night was on giving thanks in different forms as each group shared a prayer before the meal?...
...collage of circumstantial details that, when brought together in light, image, and sound, seems to express everything you feel but never could articulate. Denis did not grow up wanting to be a filmmaker. As the daughter of colonial officials, she spent the majority of her childhood moving through various outposts in French colonial Africa, including Cameroon and Djibouti. Her first encounter with cinema came when she was a college student in Paris, where Denis immediately fell in love with the medium. She did not start making films until years later when she realized she could do nothing else. Denis began...
...moved toward filmmaking, bringing the same creative philosophy which had inspired his sculptures to film collages, assembled from varied and seemingly incongruous source materials. His 1958 debut, titled simply “A Movie”, is perhaps his most famous film. The work is a collage inter-cutting various scenes of restless, frustrated, even comically absurd mobility—men on horses, novelty bicycles, surfboards, water-skis and racecars—clips of peep-show footage, air disasters, tight-rope walkers, and myriad other images, set to the sounds of Ottorino Respighi?...
...health begins to deteriorate. Farmiga portrays Elsa’s breakdown in mind and body with convincing honesty and vulnerability.The film suffers from some minor flaws which detract from the overall effect. The main interaction between Bruno and Shmuel becomes repetitive after a while. However, the various subplots and Bruno’s internal struggle keep the film from dragging too much. “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” seems somewhat muted and slow for a Holocaust movie, but it’s this same slowness that makes the moments of intense emotion even more powerful.The...