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...original raged online. Chen Kaige's The Promise wasn't even that lucky. The Weinsteins ordered months of re-cutting, only to drop it completely and hand back the rights. "If you do this and that for different audiences," warns Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi, "you lose the whole raison d'etre of your cultural mark. There's a certain energy or stamp or mark on a film that says, this is a Hong Kong film...
...modeled too heavily on Loker’s old 2005 “Pub Nights,” which featured live music, cheap food and drink, and was a fun place to party. Those events are valuable, but they shouldn’t be the pub’s raison d’être. The Queen’s Head has simply become the backdrop for such nights, albeit more frequently than in 2005. It remains mostly empty the rest of the time because of this party-night image. It’s true that there...
...have either the experience or the objectivity to have a vote on any issues, trivial or crucial. From consultation on summer storage to picking the next University president, the UC has thus far failed to show that they are not themselves an unsuccessful bureaucracy merely lobbying for an elusive raison d’être...
Unfortunately, in the battle for Americans’ hearts and purse strings, hawks still have an edge. But not for much longer. One more Katrina, and instant energy independence will hardly be the most pressing raison d’être for stringent energy standards. In the meantime, the concern should shift from one of barrels of oil imported to tons of CO2 emitted...
...Although the Task Force’s initial report underwent several structural permutations—such as the excision of a “Reason and Faith” requirement—its ostensible raison d’être of preparing undergraduates for global citizenship remained, in spirit at least, largely intact. Yet Harvard’s attempts to generally educate its students, despite the apparently hollow platitudes about the importance of understanding traditions and historically-developed ideas, will not include any mandatory study of the past...