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...loosely based on the 1971 black comedy “Harold and Maude,” Hal Ashby’s film that tells of the love affair between an elderly woman and a teenage boy. “This wouldn’t work if it was an older man and a younger girl. Social norms would be defied if that were the case,” co-writer and producer Farley T. Katz ’06 says of their thought process. “What if those norms were defied?” asks co-writer Michael...
...written an open letter to young Americans urging them to get involved in social issues and to take action. “It is important that issues like working for peace in the world, preserving the natural environment and protecting human rights do not remain merely the business of older adults,” says the Dalai Lama on the competition’s website. “I urge all of you young people in the US, to whom this opportunity is addressed, to take it up and use it to create short films that will make a difference...
...just learned how to keep them under control.“[In college], I had a bad message in my head that nothing ever works out,” he says. “I still have that message. Although now that I’m older, I go take a nap or tell myself to be quiet.”—Staff writer Lindsay A. Maizel can be reached at lmaizel@fas.harvard.edu...
...public debate that predominated in the McCarthy era. My mistake, however, was at least partially forgivable: by the time I watched the movie, in 2002, the focus of such controversy had shifted once again, away from communism and back to, of all things, evolution. This return to a much older debate forms the basis for the Kennedy School of Government’s production of “Inherit the Wind,” which goes up this weekend in the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics (IOP). For the show, the first-ever student production...
However, despite the tradition of the old scouting establishment—that which commentators invoke when promoting the virtues of Scott Podsednik’s hustle or the merits of “small-ball”—there is an even older tradition that advocates of statistical analysis can use to combat the Tower of Babel-esque national baseball coverage: the scientific method...