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...main room of “Frame by Frame” is dominated by a rolling loop of Harvard’s first and most important efforts in animation. Renowned animator Eli F. Noyes ’64 made the earliest film on this loop, “Clay or the Origin of Species,” when he was a senior at Harvard. The film, which is one of the first animated movies to use clay and went on to receive the Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Subject, features charming clay imaginings of early forms of life...
...shift from traditional public diplomacy to a kind of Internet democracy activism. Where the former relied on tools such as Voice of America radio broadcasts to all corners of the globe, the latter emphasizes the U.S. promoting indigenous voice in countries that curb free speech, says NYU telecommunications professor Clay Shirky, adding that enabling citizens to express themselves "is way more threatening than Voice of America-style broadcasts, and autocratic governments will react to that." Thus far, authoritarian governments have largely managed to control the Internet in their countries, argues Hal Roberts, a researcher with Harvard's Berkman Center...
Undoubtedly, Clay was frustrated by his effort, but the Olympian didn’t take time to pout. Instead Clay rushed from Gordon Track immediately, trying to get to California as quickly as possible. He had more important things than the pole vault to think about, such as returning to his wife, Sarah, who delivered the couple’s third child yesterday...
Clay’s experience in Cambridge was not so uncommon. Many of us stride onto this campus as freshmen no less confident than the decathlete seemed last weekend, and unsurprisingly, Clay is not the first of us to face a reality check. But while we may not have Olympic medals to comfort us when we fail, Clay’s perspective transcends his accomplishments. The decathlete insists on consistently focusing on what makes him happy, advice he readily shares...
...track standards, Clay wasn’t successful last weekend, but the decathlete’s outlook allows him to be flexible in his definition of the word. When we inevitably come up short at some point in our four years, may we too be so content in defeat...