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Paul Aufiero is best described as a man-child. At 35, he lives with his mom, thinks that 10:46 p.m. is a little late to be heading out to a party, and sleeps with a poster of his idol, fictional New York Giants star Quantrell Bishop, above his bed. In writer-director Robert Siegel’s new movie “Big Fan,” Paul becomes the unlikely subject of an engaging and darkly humorous character study. Building on his work with 2008’s critically acclaimed “The Wrestler...
...works to incorporate the arts into the education of its students both in and out of the classroom, politically-minded artwork has been appearing more frequently around campus. This past week alone featured a film on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and an exhibition on Darfur, and ACT UP New York, an exhibition of over 70 politically-charged posters and visual media from AIDS activism, is slotted for mid-October.As social and political issues heat up domestically and abroad, the need to get creative about informing Harvard students, and the greater public is becoming even more urgent.RAISING QUESTIONSWhen the Task Force outlined...
...chose Berkeley over all the other universities because it offered me a very good education at a price my family could afford,” one freshman political science major, who skipped classes for the day in protest, told The New York Times...
...happens, California is poised to cut the UC system's funding even further next year. “We are operating on the assumption that the state’s disinvestment will continue,” Berkeley's Chancellor Robert Birgeneau told The New York Times...
...love for marijuana, cheeseburgers, coffee, and esoterica. Their daily smoke sessions serve an indoctrinatory function as well: Tooth enmeshes both Chase and the reader in the interconnections between things as seemingly disparate as Marlon Brando, “Gnuppets” (cf. Muppets), and the redemption of New York City at large. The level of associations starts small at first, focusing on relations between obscure film directors and their actors. As the plot progresses, however, the associations link one into another until they ensnare the entire world of the novel.Insteadman splits his time between Manhattan’s high society...