Developers send solar-powered boat on attempted transatlantic trek
The autonomous vessel Scout is currently in transit across the Atlantic Ocean, leaving its seven creators from Tiverton, R.I. waiting to see if the boat will break world records. Scout, a 12-foot-long...
View ArticlePalestinian diplomat lambasts Oslo Accords’ legacy
Palestinians will remain in a “situation of captivity and enslavement” if Israel does not move toward a two-state solution, said Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
View ArticleProvidence City Council passes resolution to divest from coal
Providence City Council passed a resolution 11-1 in June that committed the city to divestment from any of its holdings in the top 200 fossil fuel companies in the next five years, making Providence...
View ArticleFilm Review: Despite some missteps, just sweet ‘Enough’
“We should all just put a sign on ourselves, tell the world what’s wrong with us.” After a summer of alien invasions and bromances everyone saw coming, the previews and press coverage of “Enough Said”...
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Students apathetic toward Paxson
This article is part of the series Fall 2013 Student Poll 1Nearly half the student body has no opinion on how President Christina Paxson has handled her job as president, and about 65 percent of...
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Speakers clash on nation’s role in Middle East
Questions about the merits of intervention took center stage in a debate on United States foreign policy in the Middle East in a half-full List Art Center 120 Tuesday night. The debate, entitled...
View ArticleOne-man show ‘All is Lost’ takes the Avon
Hollywood is in the age of the ensemble cast. One need only look at a critic’s shortlist of upcoming films to see that — together, “American Hustle,” “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “The Monuments Men”...
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Study abroad programs increase in enrollment
The number of students studying abroad this semester has spiked 27 percent from last fall amid an improving economy and continued interest in overseas study programs, administrators said. Two hundred...
View Article‘12 Years’ examines historical brutalities
Making a good movie about slavery is no easy task. Achieving historical accuracy demands a disturbing portrayal of brutality and injustice. Contemporary audiences seek entertainment and inspiration....
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TRI-Lab pilot project explores human development
As the TRI-Lab’s inaugural project nears the end of its first semester, the pilot lab on childhood development is functioning as both a specific community engagement initiative and a forum for dialogue...
View Article‘Llewyn Davis’ plays for and reaches artistic immediacy
It’s quirky, dry, repetitive, dark and mysterious. In sum, it’s a Coen brothers’ film. This is why, more than a month after its release, “Inside Llewyn Davis” is still fresh. Through painstakingly...
View ArticleJewish Film Festival to spark cultural dialogue
Brown’s first Jewish Film Festival, complete with three award-winning movies, food and a forum for cultural, spiritual and academic discussion hits theaters near you — the Perry and Marty Granoff...
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On an unlikely road trip, a dose of lyricism
Toto, we might be back in Kansas. Cornstalks? Check. Roads that stretch to the horizon? You got it. Days spent with beer and football? All there. While maybe not set in Kansas, “Nebraska” demonstrates...
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Public art project illuminates cemetery
“Emma A. Ellis. 1860-1918. We miss you most who loved you best.” Tucked away in a back corner of Grace Church Cemetery, this epitaph is elusive by day and even more so by night. But last Friday night,...
View ArticleFrancophone festival spotlights fresh cinematic perspective
A girl tans on a private beach, some time before arguing with her clueless mother but after starting a summer fling with a foreign boy. Right around Valentine’s Day, this has all the trappings of a...
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Exhibit to revitalize natural history collection
Sharks, a giraffe and Queen Victoria’s Shetland pony were a few of the inhabitants of the Jenks Museum of Natural History, if existing records are to be believed about the anthropology and natural...
View Article‘Her’ examines romantic expectation, reality
Like many films, “Her” spends most of its time espousing views on human existence. But to its credit, Spike Jonze’s new film is to the Encyclopedia Britannica what the average movie is to a pamphlet....
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250th celebration features art panels, exhibits
As the hungry hordes at the cake-cutting ceremony of the 250th anniversary celebration eyed the 650-pound behemoth of a confection Friday evening, President Christina Paxson asked them to suppress...
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From novel to stage, GISP enlivens study of ‘Les Miserables’
Last year Marissa Bergman ’14, Emily Kassie ’14 and Jesse Weil ’16 found themselves discussing a mutual interest: “Les Miserables.” As the conversation wandered from the recent star-studded movie —...
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‘Real people’ crucial for TV, speakers say
“People don’t go to movies to see you, they go to movies to see themselves,” said “Orange is the New Black” star Laverne Cox. This truism suggests the need for more relatable TV characters,...
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