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...Noruz takes place on the first day of spring. It's an important event in the Persian calendar," explained Babak Fardin '96, Secretary of the Harvard-Radcliffe Persian Society...
...calendar is the chief culprit: because the Republicans and the states have shoehorned 35 primaries into 29 days in February and March 1996, candidates will have to compete simultaneously in many more places than in the past. The squeeze will force hopefuls to rely heavily on TV and radio advertising, and that takes money--lots of it. This year all the Republicans must set aside time to raise money from skeptical donors who barely know them. As a result, much of the time candidates normally spend meeting voters, discussing issues and formulating positions must now give way to schmoozing affluent...
Muslim students met yesterday to pray and eat together to celebrate the end of Ramadan, the ninth lunar month of the Islamic calendar in which Muslims fast for 29 or 30 days from sunrise to sunset...
...award to my Canadian colleague, Atom Egoyan." Since then, Egoyan has become a regular at every major international festival, a member of the jury at the 1995 Sundance Festival, and a darling of both critics and audiences for films such as "Speaking Parts" (1989), "The Adjuster" (1991) and "Calendar" (1993). Egoyan is currently working on Elsewhereness, an opera for which he has written the libretto, with composer Rodney Sharman. He is also adapting Russell Banks' novel, The Sweet Hereafter, for film...
Throughout his career, and particularly with "Calendar," Egoyan's use of video in his films has provided a way of exploring absence. The director says that "with video, you are very aware that it's an image, calling attention to itself as an image, and allowing a certain degree of self consciousness which I find really, really exciting." Egoyan, however, is interested in moving away from video, as revealed by his reaction when questioned about his recurrent use of the medium. "I thought I'd never be asked that question again," he says, "but I'll answer it one last...