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...trailer for the film, put online earlier this year, stoked fears in von Trier fans of a mainstream sell-out; it "makes it seem, quite shockingly, like an uninspired piece of genre hackwork," wrote Xan Brooks on the Guardian blog. "Surely, that can't possibly be true." It's not. As von Trier has said in an interview with Knud Romer, he wrote Antichrist when he was bedridden by depression, and "I let the film flow to me instead of thinking it up... And because some of the material comes from my youth, it may be unreasonable, ecstatic." If even...
...some of his other female protagonists. Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves, Bjork in Dancer in the Dark, Nicole Kidman in Dogville and Bryce Dallas Howard in Manderlay are all made to endure, at the rough hands of men, indignations that are depicted so long and lovingly that they seem like exploitation. In the Romer interview, von Trier insists that "calling me a misogynist is wrong... I don't think women or their sexuality is evil, but it is frightening." And his view of women is Manichean: they are saints or whores, victims of the most vicious brutality...
...that the administration is keeping school politics out of the nutrition-fact deliberations. Administrators have the Harvard student body’s health as the highest priority when making their judgments. In addition to the administration, there are many students who voice their opinions on the subject. It may seem that the subject would not cause much student debate, but, in fact, students debate with one another on the nutrition policies. It is important for HUDS and the committee to understand that the general population of students at Harvard do care about the nutrition card issue...
While the Fete is particularly renowned, other formals on campus—including the freshman formal—draw similar patterns of behavior. With money to be made, more and more people seem to be looking forward to the green, not the gala. You don’t need to be an economics concentrator versed in game theory to understand demand; with friends from other houses, seniors trying to get to that elusive 12th formal, and guests visiting from out of town, there will always be people clamoring for admission. Buying formal tickets simply to sell them, however...
...unnecessary spending.” Student safety should never be a bullet point between “Scan and Deliver Service” and “Telecommunications Management” on a list of “cost saving measures.” While it may seem as though only a portion of students are affected by this cut, the impact on the lives of Quad residents is significant enough to warrant the attention of the Harvard community. This is not an issue of convenience; this is an issue of safety...