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...fair, this may have been related to the store’s long-standing policy of allowing anyone who rented a movie, fiction or nonfiction, to take out a documentary for free. When I asked the cashier about the policy last year, he explained that “people definitely have an interest in seeing documentaries, but not so much that they want to pay for it.” While this may well have resulted in the enlightenment of Cambridge’s unwashed masses on topics spanning from Spinal Tap to sharks, it also reinforced the perception...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences prepares its budget for the upcoming fiscal year, the administration will turn its attention to area-study centers to streamline spending of FAS resources, sparking concern among some center leaders...
...currently has an $80 million deficit, an improvement from the $110 million deficit Smith cited at the beginning of this academic year...
Though administrators say they are pleased with the results of last year’s budget-cutting measures—including a wave of layoffs and an early retirement package for staff—Smith described the remaining sum as “huge,” earlier this year...
Directed by Jacques Audiard (“The Beat That My Heart Skipped”), the film follows the six-year sentence of a young, French-Arab man forced to navigate the hierarchy of a jail in present-day France. Though this scenario is seemingly ripe for political commentary, especially given the French government’s recent controversies with Arab immigrants, the only politics present in the film are those of the frightening world of prison. It strays from the spiritualizing of “Shawshank Redemption” while managing to go far beyond the ruthlessness...