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...Schwarzenegger resolved California's core problem: the state habitually pays out more than it takes in, and what it takes in is restricted by Proposition 13, a 1978 ballot measure that tightly limits property taxes. Despite hopes that Schwarzenegger would take on Prop. 13, senior aide Murphy says the Governor "doesn't believe in changing" it. Some $15 billion in bonds tided the state over for this year, but by early January, Schwarzenegger's administration must come up with a budget to plug what nonpartisan state legislative analyst Elizabeth Hill estimates will be a $6.7 billion deficit...
However, Pacurar found the Core Curriculum surprising: “I didn’t expect that there would be mandatory classes...
Many of cinema’s best films have been political at their core. Many have had political views and used the story to promote their views. Others have attempted to present a political issue in all of its complexity without passing judgment on the subject matter (granted, these films are much rarer). Still other films overlay a political context on top of the story...
Kelly praised Abbate’s passion for interacting with students. “She is interested in teaching undergraduates and would probably teach broad courses within the core, or whatever replaces the core,” he said. “From the point of view of a Harvard undergrad this is good...
...careers in film, our courses do not reflect the commercial filmmaking world’s ravenous need for specialty workers. While we do value and teach technique, we do not offer stand-alone courses in, for example, cinematography and editing as do most film schools. At the core of what we teach is a belief that, like writers writing or painters painting, film authorship can also be derived through the act of handling the expressive tools of production oneself...