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Shanghai International Film Festival, June 14-22 To most Western audiences, Chinese cinema means Jackie Chan's goofball chop-socky or the high-wire fighting of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Get the bigger picture at the festival in Shanghai, the historical hub of China's film industry. The country's only international film festival celebrates foreign fare, but its main goal is to help launch the careers of young Chinese actors and filmmakers. Expect to see lots of melancholy love affairs and bizarre comedies. Karate? Not so much...
...campus reps—students at other schools hired by Intern Memo to spread the word and increase subscriptions. Maureen D. Barradas, a junior at Carleton College in Minnesota and a campus rep for Intern Memo, has been a fan of the site since she joined last June. “I believe in it so much that I decided to be a campus representative,” Barradas says. “It’s definitely something that’s helped me, and I would definitely recommend it to my friends...
...Massachusetts Housing Partnership and a contributor to the MassDocs project, described the program as “an example of government being efficient.” The initiative promotes affordable housing in Massachusetts by creating one set of loan documents. The next round of finalists will be announced on June 3, and the winners, who will receive a $100,000 award, will be announced in September. —Staff writer Lindsay P. Tanne can be reached at ltanne@fas.harvard.edu...
...arrested in June 2005 on charges of open and gross lewdness when Out of Town News employees called the police after seeing Ora dancing naked in the Square pit, protesting the commercialization of Christmas. The charges were originally dropped because the Cambridge District Court ruled that dancing naked is constitutional under “expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment,” according to the ruling...
...possible punishment in the hope of getting through to Bardot the seriousness of her transgressions of French law. MRAP implored the judge to "take note of this refusal by (Bardot) to learn the lessons of previous convictions and cease using racist language". The court will make its decision by June, although the repeat convictions on similar charges suggest that Bardot has not exactly been chastened by previous court rulings...