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...members of the General Education Committee present at the Nov. 10 Caucus meeting were Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, and Johnstone Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker...
...Munich Even before its release, Steven Spielberg's movie-written by playwright Tony Kushner-is being misunderstood by ideologues. It is about one of the teams Israeli assassins assigned to wreck vengeance upon the terrorists who wiped out eleven of that country's athletes at the 1972 Olympic games in Munich. As such it functions as a well-made and suspenseful thriller. But that's not its main business. Neither is a hymn of hate to the Palestinian perpetrators of that heinous crime, which was the true beginning of modern terrorism, carried out in the full glare of the media...
...headaches may be in store for two anonymous donors to the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS), apparently outed yesterday when Harvard’s seasonal thank-you notes to them were inadvertently sent to a list of Boston-area DEAS alumni. The notes suggest that Microsoft CEO Steven A. Ballmer ’77 and Compass Advisors Partner Stephen M. Waters ’68 had donated to the DEAS’s Challenge Fund, a fundraising initiative launched in 2002 to subsidize the development and expansion of the division. The notes also provide a rare window into...
Directed by Steven SpielbergUniversal Pictures4 Stars“Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values,” says Israel’s then Prime Minister Golda Meir (Lynn Cohen) in Steven Spielberg’s controversial new film, “Munich.” She utters these words immediately before authorizing the assassination of the Palestinians her Secret Service hold responsible for the Black September terrorist attack against Israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Her pronouncement raises a philosophical question that the remainder of the film struggles to answer: to what...
...Memoirs of a Geisha” boasts an acting team of international superstars like Zhang, Michelle Yeoh (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”), and Gong Li (“The Emperor and the Assassin”), talented big-name producers like Steven Spielberg and Gary Barber, and the plot line of the bestselling novel by Arthur S. Golden ’78. The resulting expectations are completely satisfied by the screen adaptation. The film opens in a small fishing village of Japan, in which young Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo) is sold to a geisha house in the city...