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...time, Japan is a relatively insular place. Despite slight regional variations in dialect, climate, and food, it often exudes the sense of being one large, middle-class neighborhood, comfortably indifferent to what goes on outside its precincts. As one can imagine, Japan has not always received foreigners with particular ease or enthusiasm. The country has some of the most restrictive immigration laws in the industrialized world. Citizenship is based on parentage, making naturalization an extremely arduous and exclusive process. Even those born and raised in Japan with foreign ancestors (often Korean) several generations removed are often not automatically considered Japanese...
...They called it a supra-nuclear palsy, and it was rare. Now, I thought, they could get down to fixing it, curing the sickness, making him better. I talked to Don. Got a diagnosis - great. But I saw that Don knew something dark about disease, this neurologic disease in particular. Keeping that dark thing as far in the back of his mind as he could, he looked it up: in the most recent textbooks, in the best journals, then in the not-so-hot journals. Through page on page, volume after volume, he grappled with the dark thing but couldn...
...wings. He went into Candy, he says, "wanting to quite bravely use the things that I'd found strong and helpful in rehearsing a play." But what sounded good in theory struggled in practice, especially when applied to young actors unused to the rigors of group rehearsal. Ledger, in particular, found the process "unsettling," Armfield recalls, and the director negotiated a one-on-one approach with his Brokeback Mountain star. "Lead actors in a film really have to take-and will take-responsibility for their own performances," he says...
...wise over the more wise, of students over professors.” (The Faculty narrowly voted to postpone a vote on Gross’ proposal.)While it is inherently difficult for students to evaluate course content itself (how is one supposed to “evaluate” a particular era of history?), students are particularly suited to comment on matters such as a professor’s presentation and course organization—and evaluations of this sort comprise a significant portion of the survey. In turn, the aggregate data of all courses should be available when students weigh...
...usually gone 15 minutes before they start, says Kristen E. Schmidt, a personal trainer at the MAC.Yoga and spinning are the most popular classes at the MAC, says Robert M. Latessa ’08, who works the front desk, and Pacelli says that he thinks Harvard students in particular can benefit from practicing yoga. “People come to feel like they really need yoga. They find it a source of refreshment and energy during a difficult time,” he says, adding that his MAC classes attract more men than his classes at other venues.Pacelli also...