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...witty yet deeply affecting series of experimental shorts. Her works have won her countless honors over the years, including Guggenheim Foundation and Fulbright Fellowships. Many of her films are in the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, one of the world??s premier modern art museums. This year, she was appointed to a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute. She hopes to finish a planned trilogy on suburbia and the American dream, to continue writing, and to “create a multiple image installation” at Agassiz Theatre in Radcliffe Yard...

Author: By J. samuel Abbott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alumni Watch: Abigail Child '68 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...graduate from college. He took his first job as a fifth-grade teacher at a Somerville private school, an experience he says will serve him well if elected to the council.“Cambridge is blessed, and I do mean blessed, to be home of two of the world??s premier educational institutions. In doing so, I’ve never understood why the public schools we run are so terrible,” Green says. “Where I come from, a million dollars is a lot of money. Losing sight of what happens...

Author: By Parag K. Gupta, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: GOP’s Green Seeks Council Seat | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

Batten down the hatches—the world??s best squash players will arrive at Harvard this weekend for the 2005 U.S. Open Squash Tournament. It’s the first time that the Open, which will take place at the Crimson’s Murr Center Nov. 4-8, will be held at Harvard. It has taken place at Boston’s Symphony Hall for the past three years. The Harvard squash teams’ traditional home in the Murr Center now includes the 13 glass-backed courts and one four-sided glass feature court...

Author: By Samantha A. Papadakis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Murr Center to Host Open | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

More than 70 educators from 20 Chinese and Taiwanese universities participated in a Harvard Business School (HBS) program designed to teach management education this summer. The world??s most populous country is currently suffering from a severe shortage in skilled labor—specifically experienced managers—to head its ever-increasing number of firms. This deficiency could quickly become an impediment to China’s predicted economic explosion. According to research from the McKinsey Global Institute, over the next 10 to 15 years Chinese companies will require 75,000 people to lead effectively...

Author: By Shaundra M. Crittenden, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HBS Trains Asian Leaders | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

...about 32 percent report both mental illness and substance abuse problems, while an additional 31 percent report one of these difficulties. This troubled 63 percent makes up the core of the chronic homeless seen on the streets begging for money.Dealing with this startling and, frankly, embarrassing statistic for the world??s richest nation will require confronting the fundamental problem with homeless policy: we all want to help these people with illness and addiction, but we are loath to impose on those who won’t help themselves and deprive them of freedom.The only way out of this...

Author: By John Hastrup, | Title: Homeless and Helpless | 11/1/2005 | See Source »

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