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...field. But for Song, one aspect of the film’s script elevates it above all others and convinced her to work on the project: “It was written by Douglas Coupland.” Yes, that Douglas Coupland—best-selling novelist/social theorist and coiner of the term ‘Generation X.’ “Everything’s Gone Green” is Coupland’s first screenplay, and he again attempts to capture the voice of a generation trying to find its way in the new millennium...
...should, of course, start with existentialist theorist Simone de Beauvoir’s classification of women as “the Other” in male-dominated society. While Beauvoir was of course not the first theorist to talk about self and Other, she did claim that men project their own insecurities on woman, devaluing them in order to privilege the male gender...
...Tymoczko may have changed all that. Borrowing some of the mathematics that string theorists invented to plumb the secrets of the physical universe, he has found a way to represent the universe of all possible musical chords in graphic form. "He's not the first to try," says Yale music theorist Richard Cohn. "But he's the first to come up with a compelling answer...
...leading constitutional theorist who was once named the “Most Beautiful Brainiac” by New York Magazine has accepted an offer to join Harvard Law School’s faculty next fall, the school announced yesterday. Noah R. Feldman ’92, a law professor at New York University, is best known for his expertise in constitutional law and writings on foreign affairs. He has gained prominence in recent years for his essays in The New York Times Magazine and for advising the Coalition Provisional Authority on designing the Iraqi constitution. He was a visiting professor...
...campaign posters demand, Undergraduate Council presidential candidates Tim R. Hwang ’08 and Alexander S. Wong ’08 do not actually want to “kill the UC.” Rather, they want to wound it severely.The offbeat presidential candidate and his armchair-theorist running mate say that if elected, they would eliminate the UC’s role as middleman between students and the administration and transfer decision-making power to undergraduates.Neither Hwang nor Wong have had any UC experience, but they embrace their outsider status. “Our solution...