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...have an answer for why Hollywood still casts non-ethnic people for ethnic roles. It's something that has to change. Sometimes they'll write a character for a Native person and then say, "Well, there's no Native actors that can capture the intensity of this character, so let's just make it a white person." I've seen it time and time again. I also think that people in Hollywood don't believe that a Native or an ethnic person can be a draw and make money. There's so much politics involved...
...course, not everyone purposefully wastes time in the café: I have seen a fair share of robots who—with ear buds in place to drown out the rumble of blenders and annoying giggles—can write a paper or pound through a sourcepack (or at least appear to). But even though these quasi-workers like to think of themselves as fitting with the traditional Lamont type, they have chosen the café as their place of work for a reason, and judging from their average weight, that rationale is not linked to their proximity to food...
When future historians write of this presidential search, they will be obliged to note that the widest of consultations have taken place, that very few have felt excluded from the process. They will also note that with the notable exception of the press, there seems not to be an overwhelming interest in the process or the persons. To some, it could appear that the president nowadays is fundamentally irrelevant to the ongoing life and work of most people at Harvard, although the passions aroused by President Summers might suggest otherwise. There are others who have suggested that the Harvard presidency...
...leave because they failed to have their activities approved in advance. Also at issue was what he said was the sensitive nature of the information being taken. “We hadn’t been notified, and what we had were students in every aisle with spreadsheets, writing down ISBN numbers,” he said. “The ISBN is a lot of work to get. It’s almost intellectual property.” The process of isolating the appropriate ISBN number for a particular course textbook, the manager said, involves multiple phone calls...
...Harvard Corporation to attract national attention—usually that role falls to the president—but Harvard’s highest governing board did just that recently by taking a major step forward in the development of interdisciplinary study at Harvard. The Corporation announced that it will write a check for $50 million for interdisciplinary science research and create the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC), a new University-wide standing committee that will oversee the initiative. Creating and funding a cross-disciplinary authority marks an innovative and commendable change in Harvard’s approach...