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...TurnItIn’s client list also includes Georgetown, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, more than a dozen other universities, as well as educational institutions in Australia, Canada, Egypt, Lebanon, New Zealand, Shanghai, and the U.K. Several U.S. high schools have also signed...
...side of the Charles River, it’s scaling back its investment on the other side of the globe. The Harvard Management Company (HMC), which steers the school’s $29.2 billion endowment, has sold a minority stake in its 468,000 acre Kaingaroa forest in New Zealand. The buyer is a fund established by the country’s national government to provide for its aging population. The New Zealand Superannuation Fund will acquire a stake of approximately $200 million from HMC, which has owned the forest estate since December 2003. The government land, initially sold...
...Whale Rider) Narbey's joyful imagery and Don (An Angel at My Table) McGlashan's soulful score, it comes as no surprise to learn that Fraser's cinematic heroes are movie maestros Coppola and Visconti, both lovers of lushness. And Dee, who took out Best Actress at the New Zealand Screen Awards in August, carries some of the pathos and weight of The Leopard's ageing autocrat. Otherwise No. 2-which was released in Australia last week-is a crowd pleaser every bit as tangy as the fruit salad Nanna Maria's extended family is likened to. Writes Fraser...
...while New Zealand continues its dark tradition of what actor Sam Neill dubbed the "cinema of unease," perhaps most closely identified with Jane Campion's The Piano, Conrich has detected more recently "a wave within a wave." From the Samoan slapstick of Sione's Wedding to the Polynesian hip-hop of the cult animated TV series bro'Town, a distinctly Pacific flavor is adding warmth and a sense of humor to New Zealand screen culture. "I feel like we're in the middle of a real cultural boom," says No. 2's novice director Toa Fraser, whose father hails from...
...Fijian island resort in the weeks before the May 2000 coup attempt, and it was while in Suva on a writing residency in 2001 that Fraser began his screenplay for No. 2. "Fiji is still an enigma for me," he concedes. But "I figure I know what makes New Zealand tick these days, especially Mount Roskill." With its Pacific wave, New Zealand cinema is all the more refreshing...