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...perhaps because there are too many stakeholders with conflicting interests at Harvard,” she wrote. According to Duke’s incumbent dean, R. Sanders “Sandy” Williams, the appointment of a woman to the post is “a wave that's been waiting to break for some time.” “When I started medical school in 1970, less than 20% of my class were women. Now at Duke and at most other medical schools, women have been 50% of medical classes for 10-15 years...
...Admittedly, China's new wave of glass artists toil far below the stratospheric heights attained by the country's painters, who have witnessed an estimated eightfold increase in the market for their works during the past two years. But the glass artists are every bit as bold and experimental, and equally capable of referencing international trends while retaining distinctly Chinese characteristics. "Our traditions are different from those in other parts of the world," says Beijing-based artist Guan Donghai, referring to the Chinese preference for casting glass instead of blowing it. "They give our glass a typical Chinese style." This...
...Lindsay Lohan's alleged coke-fueled car chase this summer all followed a pattern of prior troublesome behavior. Each performer was known to have spent time in treatment for addiction. For these celebrities, a mug shot somehow seems as appropriate a career visual as a red carpet wave...
...Palme d'Or, has many critics hyping the new Romanian cinema. The Mungiu drama will play prominently at Toronto, but Cowan's enthusiasm for a national Romanian film movement is guarded. He notes that TIFF's resident specialist on Eastern European films, programmer Dimitri Eipides, "approaches the Romanian new wave with some skepticism. You could barely field a soccer team with all the Romanian filmmakers. Apparently there's one great teacher at the film school there who has passed his influence to a half-dozen interesting directors...
...Handling, Cowan and their team must also play the role of efficient concierges for their more demanding guests. In 1996, Jean-Luc Godard, the ageless enfant terrible of the French New Wave, agreed to accompany his film For Ever Mozart to Toronto. "He had only two conditions," Handling recalls. "He insisted on a video suite to cut his movie, which we got for him; and he wanted to play tennis. So we brought in a tennis...