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Students have taken advantage of the newly simplified process toward recognition—after filling out an online form, meeting with an administrator to make sure the group meets the College’s basic requirements, all that is left is the final stamp of approval from the CCL, which meets once each month...
According to Hong Kong Basic Law—a constitution underpinned by a treaty between China and Great Britain—Tsang’s duties as Chief Executive of Hong Kong are to head the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, an area exempt from the socialist system and policies...
...there to offend. TV's mores have become looser in just a few years. In 1999 it was shocking for Fox's sitcom Action to use obscenities that were bleeped out. Now the same words are bleeped routinely (often barely) all over network TV--and go unbleeped on basic-cable networks like FX and ESPN, let alone Showtime and HBO. In an episode of Fox's since-canceled Keen Eddie, three men enlist a hooker to arouse a horse to extract semen from him. The PTC recently protested an episode of NBC's Medium in which the police burst into...
...material in Eichinger’s script is not entirely new. The account of Hitler’s secretary, Traudl Junge, which provides the film with its basic structure and point of view, appeared in the 2002 documentary Blind Spot by Austrian multimedia artist André Heller. Much of the same material was the subject of a 2003 documentary in the BBC’s Days that Shook the World series, which also included a description of the bunker through Traudl’s eyes...
Sharon Stone is best known for her roles in such films as Basic Instinct, but last Monday she was honored for her better instincts. On that day, Stone was celebrated by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations as their Humanitarian of the Year award recipient at a luncheon reception and an evening lecture...