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...lack of any such Harvard initiative is surprising, especially considering that, over the last few years, a general consensus among everyone from the line worker in Detroit to the silicon valley venture capitalist has been brewing in affirmation of the fact that renewable energy is the wave of the future. In his latest book, “Hot, Flat, and Crowded,” New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman asserts that “Green is not simply a new form of generating electric power; it is a new form of generating national power.” The race...
...about the iPad's alleged read-only bias will look exactly like the folks who argued that Apple was screwing over developers in the spring of 2007. To argue in good faith that Jobs and Apple are not committed to user-created media is to ignore the entire first wave of Jobs' reinvention of Apple: the iPod may have turned Apple into a Wall Street icon, but it was the iMac and the whole iLife digital-hub positioning that brought the company back from the dead. During the iPad keynote, four of the most impressive (and in-depth) demos were...
...Rohmer and Erich W. Segal’59: While critics and bloggers were busy debating the possible racist connotations of “Avatar” verses its technological implications, the death of some influential film figures went relatively unnoticed. One of the seminal directors of the French New Wave, Éric Rohmer, passed away on January 11, leaving behind a large body of films, many of which were organized in series around common problems of morality and relationships. If you share the conviction of Gene Hackman’s character in “Night Moves?...
...called it ‘Between Past and Present’ partly for that reason. Bogdanovich’s cinema references quite clearly classical Hollywood cinema, and at the same time, points forward towards the new Hollywood, which was America’s equivalent of the French New Wave.” The Ford festival will screen twenty-two films at its initial presentation this winter, and forty more movies in the next six months...
...Just over a year ago the Task Force produced a detailed itinerary for integrating the arts into the university’s curriculum. Although the Task Force Report has had minimal concrete impact thus far, the administration’s open support for the arts has caused a wave of optimism among the student body...