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...McDonnell), an actress made paraplegic in a car crash, and her helpful nurse, Chantelle (the ever splendid Alfre Woodard) -- is notable for what it doesn't show: the collision, the sight of May-Alice's mangled legs, even a clip from , the old movie she watches during the edgy vigil of her recovery. Passion Fish is an antidote to a male-buddy uplifter like Scent of a Woman. It suggests that heroism is found not in the public victories we achieve but in the intimate truths we learn to accept...
About 60 students gathered yesterday for a silent vigil in support of faculty diversity at Harvard Law School as faculty members trickled into a meeting to vote on whether to tenure a visiting woman professor...
...students held fluorescent-colored paper signs with slogans reading "Diversity Now" and "Good Enough for the Cabinet but not for HLS" at the Pound Hall vigil--the latest in a three-year student movement to demand the tenure of more minorities and women...
McIsaac also said the vigil was meant toaddress the slow response of the German governmentto the violence. "It became very apparent to usthat the government wasn't moving very quickly,"he said...
Several who attended the vigil said they thinkit is important for people to speak out againstthe violence...