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Dean Barry R. Bloom’s advice to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to restrict on-screen smoking in films sadly neglects the implications for artistic freedom in his otherwise admirable effort to discourage smoking...
Smoking is often an integral part of character portrayal and has been for decades; R ratings for movies with smoking scenes would prevent minors from viewing such classics as Good Night and Good Luck; Casablanca, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s–to name a few–as well as animated movies like 101 Dalmatians in which the villain, Cruella DeVil, smokes incessantly...
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68 knows why. The Dean of Harvard College from 1995 to 2003, he spends the last chapter of his book, “Excellence Without a Soul,” defending the value of college sports in the university setting. He recognizes the need for an AI while acknowledging coaches’ dissatisfaction and warning against the potential of a “race to the bottom” in its absence...
...Patrick R. Griffin ’05, once a baseball player under Walsh, now serves as the assistant director of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI). Part of the solution to rectifying the scholarship problem, he says, is changing public perceptions about the climate of the school. Students in general have balked at Harvard based on name and reputation alone, but “in the last 30 years, there’s really been a revolution in what a typical group of Harvard student looks like...
...toughest hitting team that we have faced this year,” head coach Jenny Allard said. “They are also very fast…Being able to counter act their speed will be very key.”—Staff writer Julia R. Senior can be reached at jrsenior@fas.harvard.edu...