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A reminder to alumni — if you will be in Boston during a scheduled course lecture, and would like to sit in, email core@bu.edu and let us know. It is often possible to join the audience as a guest. |
THE CORE WRITING CENTER is now open; tutors will be available for half-hour appointments Monday through Friday, 10-1 and 2-4. Students may visit the Core office, CAS 119, to sign up for a session, or email core@bu.edu to request an appointment. |
TODAY, 9/19: “How to Engage Professors”. Professors Cirulli, Kalt, and Nelson will lead a workshop for students to learn strategies for academic success, including how to get to know their professors better, how to use office hours effectively, and how to best participate in class. 4-6 PM, in CAS room 203. Refreshments... |
Friday, 9/23: Core in the City Trip to the Semitic Museum. Prof. Kyna Hamill will lead a trip to Harvard Square, where students will be given a guided tour of the Harvard Semitic Museum. Students should bring fare money for the T; leaving from CAS 119 at 3 PM. RSVP at http://on.fb.me/Core-F11-4. |
Saturday, 9/24: Core in the City Theater Night, “Candide”: Students in CC201, and juniors and seniors who have graduated from Core, are invited to sign up for one of 25 available tickets. Students will be able to pick up their tickets from the Core office in the days before the performance, and will meet at the Hunting... |
Friday, 9/30: Core in the City at the BPL. Prof. Thornton Lockwood will lead a tour through the Boston Public Library in Copley Square to view John Singer Sargent’s famous mural, “Triumph of Religion.” Students should bring fare money for the T; leaving from CAS 119 at 3 PM. RSVP at http://on.fb.me/Core-F11-5. |
Students may RSVP for events by emailing core@bu.edu, by adding their name to the sign-up sheet in CAS 119, or by visiting the RSVP link provided. |
If you have any ideas or comments about future Core activities, please contact Prof. Jennifer Formichelli at jlf@bu.edu. |
So did Geraldo have his mic cut? |
The rumor goes that Fox News CEO Roger Ailes was fed up with the television host defending the Obama administration in the days before the 2012 election that he ordered Geraldo’s microphone to be shut off. |
A new book claims there is truth to the rumor, though that is contradicted by reports from Fox News executives. |
The book, The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, is written by Jonathan Alter, a columnist for Bloomberg View and a contributor to Fox News competitor MSNBC. In it there are accounts of the inner workings of Fox News and their opposition to Obama’s policies. |
In the book, Alter discusses a November 2, 2012, segment on Fox and Friends in which Geraldo Rivera battled with colleague Eric Bolling, who had accused the Obama administration of lying about the attack. Alter claims that it was too much for Fox News boss Roger Ailes, who came down to the control room and ordered that... |
Mediaite contradicts that report, saying that Ailes never ordered Geraldo silenced. The report even points to a video of the segment in question, showing that while there is a dip in Rivera’s microphone, at no point is he inaudible. So it is possible he never had his mic cut at all. |
As reports swirled early this week, Rivera himself even stepped in to clear up the debate. |
So what happened, if Geraldo didn’t have his mic cut? Fox News executive vice president of programming, Bill Shine, said he called down to the set of Fox and Friends morning show because Geraldo Rivera and the hosts were getting into too heated of a debate over the Benghazi terror attack and the segment had run its cou... |
Go to The Famous for cocktails and conversation. Weekday happy hour prices run until 8 p.m., and the doors close at 2 a.m. |
So your sweetheart wants to go out on the town for Valentine's Day? Dinner can be pricey and reservations hard to get. How about cocktails, small bites and entertainment till the wee hours of the morning? Can this be found in Glendale? Absolutely. Here's a guide to the burgeoning Glendale night life scene and to some t... |
Instead of splurging on an expensive dinner, why not start the night by sharing the outstanding Taco Tasting platter at Frida in the Americana at Brand. During happy hour, it's only $10 for five juicy, meaty tacos and all the chips and house-made salsa you can eat. Wash them down with their $6 margarita in a big Mexica... |
Next, a film at one of the nearby theaters might be nice or perhaps hand-holding and window-shopping. Afterward, stroll over to the Famous Craft Cocktail Lounge at 154 S. Brand Blvd., right across from the Americana. Housed in the historic Huntley-Evans building, former site of the Famous department store, this new inc... |
This is the kind of place where they make an Old Fashioned the right way — with muddled artisan cherries, small-batch bitters, exquisite ice cubes and an orange-zest-rubbed rim. You'll feel like you've gone to the latest downtown L.A. hot spot (and you'll pay the same prices). Trust the bartenders here. They mix vintag... |
If you're hankering for some live music, walk around the corner to Left Coast Wine Bar at 117 E. Harvard. Most nights from 8 to midnight, local musicians share their talents and bare their souls in the upstairs loft. Valentine's Day features Karl Marsh on the jazz saxophone. Admission is free and wine is recommended. |
Maybe cocktails and wine aren't your thing. Beer, cider and vintage soda pop connoisseurs will want to check out the newest addition to the Glendale craft-brew scene. The Glendale Tap, at 4227 San Fernando Road, is off the beaten path but worth the hunt. Made to look like a fishing-lodge-meets-race-car-garage, Glendale... |
Food items, like empanadas and soft pretzels, are brought into the Tap from Timmy Nolan's Tavern in Burbank, owner Steve Skorupa's other establishment, but if your stomach is seriously growling, walk across the street to Victoria's Tacos. I talked about Victoria's in another review, but it's worth mentioning again beca... |
Still not ready to call it a night? Then check out C Plus 24 hour Craft Coffee at 1302B S. Brand, close to the Los Feliz border. They never close, so the pour-over brews never stop flowing and the punk rock never stops playing. Choose from a variety of coffee roasters, such as Plow & Gun, Handsome and Groundwork. Plus ... |
There's free WiFi at C Plus, so you and your honey can Instagram photos of your night on the town before heading home. |
In a year with more than 400 scripted series—almost double the amount in 2009—picking just 10 of them for a best-of list seems impossible. |
Thanks to cable, broadcast and now streaming outlets, we have access to an overabundance of top-shelf shows, too many for any sane person to keep up with. It seems like another worthy series is added to the list on a weekly basis. Instead of a top 10, I could have easily done a top 50 this year, and even then would hav... |
In the era of what FX Networks CEO John Landgraf infamously called “peak TV,” watching television can feel more like a chore than a delight—we’ve got to power through those shows and clear out DVR space before the next onslaught of quality episodes! But that's not the case with any of the magnificent programs on this l... |
From sensational freshman debuts to shows that somehow got even better in Season 2 to those that ended their runs in unforgettable fashion, these programs represent the very best that television—or any medium—had to offer this year. Check out our supercut below, and happy binge-watching! |
When watching Rectify, I’m often reminded of that old Sesame Street song, “One of These Things Is Not Like the Other,” as there is truly nothing else like it on television. Released from Death Row after 20 years when DNA evidence overturned his murder conviction, Daniel Holden (Aden Young) has warily readjusted to life... |
This year, Comedy Central boasted one of the strongest lineups in its network's history—including a resurgent South Park, Broad City, Inside Amy Schumer and the final season of Key & Peele—but its funniest, most incisive series generated only a fraction of the attention given to those other shows. Review's TV host Forr... |
If You’re the Worst’s sophomore season had simply stuck to the brilliant game plan from Season 1—looking at the lives of two horrible people (Chris Geere's Jimmy Shive-Overly and Aya Cash's Gretchen Cutler) who have coupled up and somehow bring out the best in each other—that would have been satisfying enough. But inst... |
Hello, friend! USA went for broke with this hacker drama, which was so subversive that it often seemed as if the series itself had been an elaborate hack. Creator Sam Esmail's gripping tale of an unstable hacker (Rami Malek) could have imploded at every turn, yet it blossomed into a gripping and eerily prescient master... |
There was no TV moment more stunning this year than the final seconds of this HBO docuseries in which Robert Durst, unaware that his mic was still on, seemed to finally confess to murdering three people. But even without that jawdropper, Andrew Jarecki’s look at one of our country's most fascinating, frightening men wa... |
Last year’s best new series upped its game for Season 2. Transgender woman Maura (Jeffrey Tambor)—who spent the first season embracing her new life—continued her journey while her three children (Gaby Hoffman, Amy Landecker and Jay Duplass) also went in search of themselves. Creator Jill Soloway has only begun to mine ... |
Call this one the comeback of the year. Season 1 of this drama, about the aftermath of a tragic event in which 2 percent of the world’s population "departed" without a trace, was all over the map (and that’s putting it kindly), but at its best, it was one of TV’s finest shows. This year was a powerful course-correction... |
I'm cheating here, but this was the only way to get a few more deserving shows into Adweek's top 10. Some of the best television shows of the past decade came to an end this year—Mad Men, Parks and Recreation, Justified—and thrillingly saved their (almost) best for last. Justified roared to the finish line with its str... |
My pick for the best series of 2014 might have been even better in Season 4 as married, undercover Russian spies Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) finally revealed their true identifies to their teenage daughter, Paige (Holly Taylor). Its ninth episode, "Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?" (featur... |
After the debacle that was True Detective Season 2, I was a little worried about the second installment of last year’s other magnificent miniseries, Fargo. Silly me: From the first episode to last night’s superb grace note of a finale, Noah Hawley managed to surpass Season 1, crafting a 10-episode masterpiece that neve... |
These 10 shows just missed the cut, but this marvelous lineup would represent quite a formidable top 10 list of its own. If you aren’t watching these shows regularly, correct that immediately: Better Call Saul (AMC), Black-ish (ABC), Bojack Horseman (Netflix), Catastrophe (Amazon), Hannibal (NBC), Last Week Tonight Wit... |
And check back tomorrow for the 10 Best New TV Shows of 2015. |
Savannah-Chatham police arrested a Savannah man early Wednesday and charged him in five entering-an-auto cases. |
Ronald Ervin Bragg, 49, of the 900 block of East Park Avenue., was arrested shortly before 3 a.m. with a tote bag containing items stolen from the vehicles, police spokesman Julian Miller reported. |
Included in the bag were a camera and GPS which listed a house in the 500 block of East Henry Street as its "home" location, Miller said. Police found the GPS had been taken from a Jeep parked across the street. |
Police also linked Bragg to thefts of autos at 33rd and Lincoln streets, 500 block of East 31st Lane and the 500 block of East 34th Street. All five incidents involved windows being broken to gain entrance. |
Police had saturated the area after a resident of the 300 block of East 35th Street reported seeing a man entering an auto and providing police with a description of that man, Miller said. Bragg, who fit the description, was stopped about two hours later jumping fences, bleeding and carrying a bag near East 33rd and Gr... |
• On 29 February 2016, UNRWA opened the new Sa’d Al Abduallah Al Sabah building in the UNRWA Ibin Sina elementary boys school in Rafah, southern Gaza. This is one of UNRWA’s many construction projects in Gaza, including 23 UNRWA schools due for completion in 2016. The opening ceremony was attended by the Director of UN... |
• Breast cancer is a health concern for women in Gaza, as much as it is for all women across the world. The UNRWA Gaza Health Programme (HP) works to detect breast cancer among Palestine refugee women as early as possible to increase the survival rate as well as to improve the mode of treatment. To raise further awaren... |
• During the reporting week, the UNRWA Job Creation Programme (JCP), in cooperation with the Agency’s Infrastructure and Camp Improvement Programme (ICIP), launched its annual “fighting mosquitoes” project across the Gaza Strip. The project runs for six months and includes the spraying of stagnant water pools, water as... |
• To further empower its front line staff and maintain closer community linkages, in 2010 UNRWA in Gaza set up its Chief Area Offices (CAO) in all five governorates of Gaza – North, Gaza, Middle Area, Khan Younis and Rafah. CAOs have an UNRWA representative function at the area level. They liaise with government author... |
• During the reporting week, the new UNRWA Director of Human Resources (HR), Mr. Brian Gleeson, had his inaugural field visit to Gaza. During the visit, from 28 February to 1 March, he engaged with different UNRWA staff and programmes, participating in a town hall meeting with the UNRWA Field Management Team and separa... |
• The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) recently signed an agreement with UNRWA in support of the Agency’s technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programme in the Gaza Strip. A pledged contribution of US$ 447,996 will enable UNRWA to conduct a comprehensive study of its existing TVET progra... |
• During the reporting week, UNRWA was able to disburse approximately US$ 1.82 million in funding available for reconstruction (US$ 1.73 million) and severe repair works (US$ 91,454). The funds will reach a total of 189 refugee families across the Gaza Strip. The families will be able to access this assistance through ... |
• Since the start of the 2014 emergency shelter response, the Agency has distributed over US$ 153.2 million (excluding Programme Support Costs) to Palestine refugee families whose homes were damaged or demolished during the 2014 summer conflict. |
• UNRWA has completed the payments to over 66,300 Palestine refugee families – more than half of the caseload – for minor repair works, to 1,540 families to repair their severely damaged shelters, to 13 families for major repair works and to 60 families for reconstruction. Payment transfers for over 12,400 refugee fami... |
• Due to lack of funding, as of 1 March 2016, over 60,860 refugee families have not received any payments to undertake repair works for their minor damaged homes (total estimate repair costs: US$ 68.7 million). Further, 3,194 families have not received any payments to repair or start repairing their major damaged homes... |
• As of 1 March 2016, 6,797refugee families have not received any payments to start repairing their totally demolished homes; the total costs of reconstructing their homes amounts to approximately US$ 305.8 million. |
Operational environment: Regular protests took place during the reporting week in solidarity with the West Bank journalist Mohammad Al Qeeq who ended his three-month hunger strike on 27 February in an Israeli jail after reportedly reaching a compromise with Israeli authorities. Other demonstrations were held in solidar... |
On 26 February, a family dispute reportedly took place in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza; edged weapons were used but no injuries were reported. The police arrested several persons. |
on 25 February, a hand grenade reportedly exploded accidently while two children were mishandling a fuse inside their home in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. One child died and the other was injured. The police have opened an investigation. |
High socio-economic instability, the lack of prospects particularly among youths, damaged infrastructure and heavily impaired service delivery (water, electricity) together with an (initially) slow reconstruction process exacerbates anger and frustration among the people of Gaza. The reconstruction process of Gaza is h... |
A number of protests took place during the reporting week, which were mainly associated in solidarity with Palestinian journalist Mohammad Al Qeeq who continues his hunger strike whilst in Israeli detention since the end of November 2015. Popular Refugee Committees held a protest in front UNRWA Field Office in solidari... |
On 2 February, two militants of Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, died due to a tunnel collapse in the Gaza Middle Area. |
On 2 February, one Palestinian was arrested at Erez Crossing by Israeli forces. |
On 8 February, a tunnel collapsed in Rafah area under the border between Gaza and Egypt, which resulted in the death of one Palestinian. |
According to media reports, on 8 February the armed wing of the Hamas movement delivered the death penalty against its member Mahmoud Eshtawi, who was executed the same day. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, in 2015 nine death sentences were issued in Gaza; in addition, since the start of 2016, four... |
Due to lack of funding, as of 1 March 2016, over 60,860 refugee families have not received any payments to undertake repair works for their minor damaged homes (total estimate repair costs: US$ 68.7 million). Further, 3,194 families have not received any payments to repair or start repairing their major damaged homes (... |
As part of UNRWA’s breast cancer awareness campaign, on 1 March over 50 Palestine refugee women gathered at Al Amal Association for Persons with Disabilities in Rafah, southern Gaza, to learn more about and discuss breast cancer and early detection. |
The session was one of over 100 planned awareness and outreach sessions being conducted through the UNRWA Health Programme between mid-February and mid-March 2016. Sessions are being held in the 21 UNRWA Health Centres across Gaza, but also in UNRWA-supported Community-Based Organisations such as Rehabilitation Centres... |
“Three years ago, my brother’s wife died from breast cancer. Since then I continuously raise awareness among women in the community of how they can better protect themselves from it through early detection,” explained nurse Jamalat. “I hope that all women who participate in these awareness sessions will themselves go a... |
During the session, Jamalat explained to the women in detail the importance of regular check-ups and screenings to detect potential breast cancer at an early stage, how women can check themselves and to what extent medical family history can impact the chance of getting breast cancer. The senior nurse also advised the ... |
“This disease is very dangerous, and I am glad I learned how to better protect myself,” commented 24-year old participant Raghda Hashem, who said she was informed about breast cancer for the first time in her life. |
After the session, UNRWA health staff also distributed breast cancer awareness brochures to all women for further information, and they offered free check-ups for all participating women . |
During the reporting week, Israeli forces fired towards Palestinian areas along the perimeter fence and towards Palestinian boats on a daily basis. On 25 February, Israeli patrol boats opened fire towards Palestinian boats in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. One boat sustained damage; no injuries were reported. Also on 27 Fe... |
Regular protests in support of Al Aqsa mosque and the situation in the West Bank were held across Gaza and in the vicinity of the perimeter fence. Protests near the perimeter fence, involving approximately 300 persons, predominately youth, took place east of Bureij camp in central Gaza, east of Gaza city, in the vicini... |
• Erez crossing is usually open six days a week. It was open for National ID holders (humanitarian cases, medical cases, merchants and UN staff) and international staff from 23 to 25 February ad from 28 February to 1 March. On 26 February it was open for pedestrians only. It was closed on 27 February. |
On day 189 of the Nuremberg Trials, French prosecutor Auguste Champetier de Ribes delivered his closing statement. In it, he described the Holocaust as a "crime so monstrous, so undreamt of in history through the Christian era up to the birth of Hitlerism, that the term 'genocide' had to be coined to define it." |
The mass, systematic slaughter of six million people was a "crime without a name," as Winston Churchill referred to genocide in his live broadcast from London in August 1941, two months after the Germans invaded Soviet Russia. Once news of the pogroms reached the West, leaders there deployed an arsenal of adjectives in... |
In New York City's Mount Hebron Cemetery is a gravestone that is headed with a Hebrew epitaph. The words, "Beloved Brother and Uncle Dr. Raphael Lemkin 1900-1959" follow underneath. In a less imposing font size, "Father of the Genocide Convention" is inscribed yet further down. |
Dr. Lemkin was born on a small farm in Poland, and is noted as having had a preoccupation with tales of human wickedness throughout his life. In his autobiography, he recalls that as a twelve-year-old, he was enthralled by an account of Nero's massacres of Christians in ancient Rome, and he told his mother he wanted to... |
When Lemkin was six, pogroms ensued in Bialystok, only a few miles away from his home. His memoir recalls the excruciating stories of anti-Semitic fury that the pogroms unleashed: "A line, red from blood, led from the Roman arena through the gallows of France to the pogrom of Bialystok." |
Lemkin's own crusade for justice was similarly linear and unrelenting -- even Sisyphean in its endlessness. He died alone, disheveled, and poor, collapsing at a bus stop on 42nd Street in New York, doomed to remain a historical footnote -- much like the massacre that was his raison d'être. |
The Assyrians are indigenous to the parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria that comprised the ancient, contiguous territory of Assyria, which dates back to 2500 b.c. and appears in the New Testament. They are a distinct, largely Christian ethnic group, having been converted to the faith by St. Thomas, St. Thaddeus, and... |
In August of 1933, Lemkin learned the news of the aforementioned massacre, in which 63 Assyrian villages in the Dohuk and Mosul districts of modern-day Iraq were attacked by the nascent Iraqi Army. As many as 6,000 Assyrians were brutally murdered. Pregnant women were bayoneted, while others were lit aflame with burnin... |
The most brutal massacres occurred in a town called Simmele, a small, Kurdish-inhabited village repopulated by refugees from the Assyrian and Armenian Genocide of 1915, in which it's estimated that 300,000 Assyrians and 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Turks. According to the secret report of a British eyewitne... |
Months after the Simmele Massacre, Lemkin created the concept of "genocide" by combining the Greek word for group or families, "geno," with the Latin word for killing, "cide." He made a presentation to the Legal Council of the League of Nations conference on international criminal law in Madrid, where he prepared an es... |
The Simmele Massacre, despite its incomprehensible violence, has received little utterance in western discourse and academia. In his book, The Man Who Invented Genocide: The Public Career and Consequences of Raphael Lemkin, James Joseph Martin refers to the genocide of the Assyrians as "so obscure and distantly located... |
This August marks the 85th anniversary of the unspeakable crime that Lemkin memorialized, and according to Reine Hanna, a co-founder and director of the Assyrian Policy Institute (API), the Assyrian people are still seeking justice, even as the perpetrators' ancestors continue to deny the truth. |
"There have been deliberate efforts to erase what happened in 1915 and 1933," Hanna tells National Review. "Both Turkey and Iraq, respectively, took deliberate steps to cover up these genocidal campaigns, and much of the evidence was destroyed." |
Assyrians were never afforded the opportunity to heal and properly document what happened to their community. Today, they still don't have a dignified memorial site for those who perished in the massacre. The bones of those who were callously burned in mass graves remain scattered, and can be seen protruding through th... |
The historical erasure is so pervasive, according to the ADI, that some Assyrians have become unaware the massacres of 1915 and 1933 ever happened. |
While Hanna feels that Pence's initiative is right and genuine, she is also quick to point out its flaws. For one thing, the aid Pence authorized will be delivered to faith-based organizations, where church leaders prioritize rebuilding churches rather than schools, homes, and hospitals, which Assyrians desperately nee... |
"The Nineveh Plain . . . is ethnically and religiously diverse, meaning it can serve as an example for the rest of the country and help advance reform in Iraq and promote tolerance and pluralism -- values shared by the United States," Hanna says. |
Lemkin worked furiously to give the crimes committed against the Christians under Nero, the Jews under Hitler, the Armenians under the Turks, and the Assyrians today a name. As the 85th anniversary of the Simmele Massacre approaches, it is critical to the survival of the long-suffering Assyrian community that the West ... |
As we saw earlier today, it's looking more likely that Chris Evans is bidding farewell to Captain America. Having been part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe for eight years, the actor has wrapped shooting Avengers 4, and there's no indication that he'll suit back up in Phase 4. But life goes on, and he's certainly not ... |
According to Deadline, Chris Evans has been cast in Knives Out, which will see him acting alongside Daniel Craig. Having delivered the incredibly divisive Star Wars: The Last Jedi late last year, Johnson is tackling Knives Out before he moves onto his Star Wars film trilogy. Although Knives Out is expected to start fil... |
Chris Evans' movies during his tenure as Captain America included What's Your Number?, Snowpiercer and Gifted, and now that he's seemingly retired from his patriotic superhero duties, that gives him more time to show off his acting chops in other kinds of movies. Considering all the positive chatter surrounding Knives ... |
The only plot details that have been revealed so far about Knives Out is that it will be a classic whodunnit murder mystery (in the vein of Agatha Christies's stories) set in the present. In addition to directing, Johnson wrote the script and is producing with his partner Ram Bergman through their still-to-be-named com... |
Stay tuned to CinemaBlend for more updates on Knives Out and Chris Evans' career. For now, look through our 2018 and 2019 release schedules to learn what movies are heading to theaters over the next year. |
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