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...statement did not address the question of formal sanctions against Mansfield. In fact, it did not even mention the professor by name. What it did do was emphasize that it is "important that students, faculty, and other members of the community feel free to express and debate their views openly and honestly...
...vignettes that avoid the seductions of sentimentality and melodrama. The Piano Teacher stirs up a tasty poison porridge of lusts and hatreds between a precocious pianist (Benoît Magimel) and his stern tutor (Isabelle Huppert); in chic, lurid images it suggests that teachers, perhaps all adults, try to express and exorcise their frustrations by dominating their charges. In coarser hands, this tale of obsession and self-mutilation could be ludicrous from the start; in these hands it is goofy only toward the end, when the sadistic teacher becomes the terrified victim. But Huppert, the cinema's most dauntingly intelligent...
...easy to use? "There's a reason people still use pen and paper," says Anoto's director of new concepts, Linus Wiebe, with only a hint of admonishment. "It's not because they are stupid or old-fashioned, but because pen and paper are the most innovative way to express yourself. It's a technology that's been refined over thousands of years...
...point. After all, I'm jotting down his words in my notebook, not keying them into a computer. And unlike reporters, many people need more than words to express themselves: architects, engineers, graphic designers, artists. Sure, you can "draw" on graphics tablets, but these are no real substitute for pen and paper. Then there's the two-thirds of the world that doesn't use the Roman alphabet. You can get keyboards in Chinese and Hindi, but speed is a problem if you have to hit several keys to make a single character. Writing is intuitive, natural...
...given the opportunity to apply, but with a catch: I would have to relinquish my second visiting semester during the spring application cycle. It was probably the hardest decision of my life, but I gave up that second term for just the chance of being back here. I cannot express the heights of excitement I felt when I learned one May morning that my gamble had paid off and I was finally accepted to stay...