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...room and, often as not, they do as they're told. There the point is to see if the subjects will take orders against their best instincts. Here, Jigsaw has two rationales for his eccentric behavior. One is to punish people he believes are moral transgressors, though his judgments tend to be hasty and draconian. The other is more personal: Jigsaw, eventually revealed as John Kramer (Tobin Bell), is suffering from a fatal brain tumor, and he wants to prove that only having faced death can a man truly savor life. Or, as he puts it a bit more proscriptively...
...Dark” on Nov. 5. “Paradise,” a short film which was Dvortsevoy’s thesis project for film school, presents moments from the daily life of a family of nomadic shepherds in Kazakhstan. The camera tracks the individuals as they tend their livestock, prepare their food, and—in one case—run away from home. “Highway” takes place in the same country, and follows a family of circus performers who travel a 2,000 -mile dirt road in a dilapidated bus, performing in small...
...male undergraduate fell from Leverett House Tower F this morning, and police have transported him to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston to tend to his "serious injury," according to Harvard officials...
...excited about working with the consultants,” he says. “I realized how much the VCO could help us.” DEFINITIONS OF SUCCESS“It’s easier to understand what the mission of a steel company is, but non-profits tend to be driven by a different mission,” says Anderson. Finding that mission is sometimes a difficult task.For the Brattle and WHRB, it seems that the mission is to function as a significant artistic presence within their immediate communities. Some Harvard students can see a little of that...
...surprising that Wansink, a researcher who studies how people’s choices frequently tend toward what seems easiest or most immediately pleasurable, does everything to make his book accessible to a wide audience...