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...also launched the "Overlooked Film Festival" in his hometown of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, featuring films that never received the reception he believes they deserved. Ebert has referred to the event as "the best train set a boy could ever want." The 11th edition of "Ebertfest" kicks off Wednesday at the historic Virginia Theater in downtown Champaign, and will screen a dozen titles including Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg, Ramin Bahrani's Chop Shop and Courtney Hunt's Frozen River, which took home the top prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. After a long bout with thyroid cancer and complications...
...TIME: This is the 11th year of your film festival - an event you've dubbed "The Overlooked." Which of this year's selections do you feel has been most overlooked...
...Health Research and Policy Forward,” which she likened to an “Intersectionality for Dummies” guide for health researchers, scholars, and policy makers who want to apply the paradigm to their work. Candance B. Samuel ’12, who attended the event, said that she enjoyed the opportunity to learn more about the research process. “It’s helped me connect the dots more with what I’m learning in school and as it applies to actual research in public health. So it was very informative...
...readers or the viewers, and that it is this explicit awareness that art brings that stimulates progress. “It is when we become comfortable and forget to fight for freedom that we run into problems,” Fuentes said. “This kind of event and being able to host such an influential speaker is very important, first of all, for the Latin-American community at Harvard,” said Christopher J. Hollyday ’11, one of the Forum staff. “And it is also important for Mexican-American relations...
...helped prevent future terror strikes, they maintain; Mohammed himself, the memos revealed, was waterboarded a startling 183 times in March 2003 (a May 2005 memo from a CIA lawyer said waterboarding could be used on a detainee up to 12 times daily for as long as 40 seconds per event). Then-CIA director George Tenet, in his 2007 memoir, says that tough interrogation of al-Qaeda members - and documents found on them, he is careful to add - thwarted more than 20 plots "against U.S. infrastructure targets, including communications nodes, nuclear power plants, dams, bridges, and tunnels." A "future airborne attack...