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...their due. Jacqueline Cohen, responsible for all of Woody Allen's films since 1989's Alice, says that "whenever Woody comes to town, he always mentions that the reason his films are so successful in France is thanks to the person who does the subtitles." No quick task, considering the talky nature of the prolific filmmaker's almost annual releases. "Action movies average about 700 subtitles - Woody's, between 1,500 to 2,000," says Claude Dupuy, the director of subtitling at LVT Laser Subtitling, which handles more than 600 films per year...
...Even with the brains and a brawny vision, Digital Universe's task ahead is daunting. Categorizing the best content on the Web is an undertaking that Yahoo! abandoned years ago, while other encyclopedia websites already offer content posted by experts for free. Such challenges don't discourage Firmage, who sold his first company, Serius, for $20 million at 23; Serius evolved out of the challenge of writing software for his mother's greeting card business. Since then, he has given away some 95% of his wealth to philanthropic causes...
During his last weeks in office, Dean Kirby appoints six professors to the Task Force on General Education, which he charges with creating yet another report addressing the future of general education at Harvard...
...task force releases its preliminary report, which rejects the distribution requirement suggested by previous reports and instead suggests that students be required to complete approved courses in specific “areas of inquiry and experience” and “critical skills...
Amid Faculty criticism, the task force drops its headline-grabbing "Reason and Faith" requirement but added another category called "What It Means To Be a Human Being." The move to eliminate the religion requirement leaves the proposed general education curriculum looking more like the Core than it had at any point during the curricular review...