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...Sundance Selects video-on-demand channel to watch three premieres (The Shock Doctrine, Daddy Longlegs, 7 Days) from the comfort of your living room. If you live in one of eight selected cities outside Utah (from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Nashville to San Francisco), you can try to snag a ticket for a Jan. 28 Sundance screening as festival filmmakers travel with their official selections to theaters across the country...
Western governments have hit a snag in their demands that Uganda drop a proposal to impose the death penalty for homosexual behavior: it may have been partly inspired by Americans. A draft of the bill was introduced in April, a month after three Evangelical Christians gave talks on "the gay agenda" to politicians and police officers. The Americans have said they had no intention of stoking hatred; one called the bill "horrible...
...Harvard didn’t already have enough rockstar professors, we just managed to snag F. Orhan Pamuk, the famed Turkish novelist and Nobel Laureate, as Harvard’s Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer of the semester. The English Department’s new kid on the block will be giving guest talks on the art of the novel, which will be open to all at Sanders Theater. The Columbia professor, who splits his time between New York and Istanbul, sits down with FM to chat about Harvard, freedom of speech, and why winning isn’t everything...
...Every once in a while, he’ll lean an elbow on the podium, cross his ankles, and place a hand in his pocket, then lecture from that vantage point. He never misses a beat or misreads his audience, some who didn’t manage to snag a chair...
...little time to do home visits,” said Odile Nzirabatinya, the Chief Financial Officer for the PIH sister organization in Rwanda. “Now, I feel more energized to be more involved with field work.”Several Harvard students who managed to snag tickets to the sold-out event expressed similar sentiment.“Social justice has always been a burden on my heart,” said Desta S. Lissanu ’13. “I’m Ethiopian...I really feel an obligation to help my people...