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Harvard University is an American private Ivy League research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) chartered in the country. Harvard's history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
Harvard was named after its first benefactor, John Harvard. Although never formally affiliated with a church, the college primarily trained Congregationalist and Unitarian clergy. Harvard's curriculum and students became secular throughout the 18th century and by the 19th century had emerged as the central cultural establishment among Boston elites. Following the American Civil War, President Charles W. Eliot's forty year tenure (1869–1909) transformed the college and affiliated professional schools into a centralized research university, and Harvard became a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900.James Bryant Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II and began to reform the curriculum and liberalize admissions after the war. The undergraduate college became coeducational after its 1977 merger with Radcliffe College. Drew Gilpin Faust was elected the 28th president in 2007 and is the first woman to lead the university. Harvard has the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world, standing at $32 billion as of September 2011.
Natalie Hershlag (Hebrew: נטלי הרשלג; born June 9, 1981), better known by her stage name Natalie Portman, is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was as an orphan taken in by a hitman in the 1994 French action film Léon, but mainstream success came when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (released in 1999, 2002 and 2005). In 1999, she enrolled at Harvard University to study psychology while still working as an actress. She completed her bachelor's degree in 2003.
In 2001, Portman opened in New York City's Public Theater production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. In 2005, Portman received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for the drama Closer. She won a Constellation Award for Best Female Performance, and a Saturn Award for Best Actress for her starring role in V for Vendetta (2006). She played leading roles in the historical dramas Goya's Ghosts (2006) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008). In May 2008, she served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury. Portman's directorial debut, Eve, opened the 65th Venice International Film Festival's shorts competition in 2008. Portman directed a segment of the collective film New York, I Love You.
Actors: Stan Harrington (actor), Robert Pralgo (actor), Kely McClung (writer), Kely McClung (actor), Kely McClung (director), Kely McClung (producer), Kely McClung (editor), Chris Meister (actor), Joyce Porter (actress), Keith Brooks (actor), Jessica Imoto Harney (actress), Jessica Imoto Harney (producer), Molly Coffee (actress), Dan Slemons (actor), Elizabeth Reiners (actress),
Genres: Horror,Actors: Erinn Hayes (actress), Oscar Nuñez (actor), Lucille Soong (actress), Sam Ghosh (actor), James Runcorn (actor), Noel Rogers (editor), Nelson Franklin (actor), Amy Tolsky (actress), Courtney Taylor Burness (actress), Kate Miner (actress), Peter Traugott (producer), Paul Rogan (actor), Chris Alan Lee (composer), Luka Jones (actor), Scott Ellis (director),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Peter Habbit (actor), Damián Acosta (actor), Daniel Gunter (director), Daniel Gunter (actor), Daniel Gunter (producer), Daniel Gunter (writer), Ben Spring (actor), Mike Havok (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Jason Harris (actor), Peter Pamela Rose (actress), Diane Hounsell (miscellaneous crew), Susan T. Parsons (miscellaneous crew), Lee Tergesen (actor), Jacob Craycroft (editor), William Stone Mahoney (actor), Steven Chester Prince (actor), Kevin Shinick (actor), Amy Redford (actress), Brian Vander Ark (actor), Jill Haworth (actress), Martha Byrne (actress), Michael H. Ingram (actor), Mitchell Bard (director),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Kevin Kiner (composer), Ginger Lynn (actress), Andrew Divoff (actor), Nils Allen Stewart (actor), Francis X. McCarthy (actor), Danny Trejo (actor), Donald P. Borchers (producer), Andre Rosey Brown (actor), Hunter von Leer (actor), Eric Pierpoint (actor), Ash Adams (actor), Billy Maddox (actor), Ilt Jones (miscellaneous crew), Paul Hampton (actor), Page Rosenberg-Marvin (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: The small town of Lakeview, Arizona has been taken over by a violent gang of bikers. The local sheriff is too afraid to do anything to stop them ever since his fiancee was murdered while trying to bring evidence against the gang to the FBI. One day, a mysterious woman, who looks exactly like the sheriff's fiancee, comes riding into town on a motorbike and starts killing members of the gang. Who is this avenging mystery woman?
Keywords: biker, biker-gang, crossbow, desert, female-biker, female-martial-artist, female-protagonist, independent-film, martial-arts, motorcycleActors: Paul Williams (actor), Alan Smithee (director), Jack Palance (actor), Paul Koslo (actor), Richard C. Sarafian (director), Maurice Jarre (composer), Corin Nemec (actor), Roy Jenson (actor), Michael Berryman (actor), Charlton Heston (actor), Tim Matheson (actor), Dorian Harewood (actor), Peter Boyle (actor), Brian McMillan (miscellaneous crew), Ronald L. Carr (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts must go to the Sun to drop a talking bomb (Freddy) at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else. Giant IXL Corp CEO Teague thinks the flare won't happen and wants the mission to fail so he can buy the planet cheaply while the scare lasts. Employee Haas prepares a surprise for the astronauts. While daddy Steve Kelso commands the space ship where temperaturs rise, granddaddy Admiral Skeet Kelso is searching the desert for grandson Mike who's gone AWOL to say goodbye to his dad but who inadvertently crossed the path of the guys from IXL after meeting desert-dweller Travis.
Keywords: apocalypse, astronaut, based-on-novel, bomb, burnt-body, crash-landing, death, disaster, earth, end-of-the-worldActors: Len Lesser (actor), Sharron Reynolds (miscellaneous crew), Martin Mull (actor), Eddie Albert (actor), Art Carney (actor), Fran Ryan (actress), Tim Thomerson (actor), Barbara Hershey (actress), Mike Genovese (actor), Royal Dano (actor), Robert Hays (actor), James Karen (actor), David Keith (actor), William J. Immerman (producer), Virgil Frye (actor),
Plot: The "Alison Group" has bought four beer breweries in difficulties. The young but rising top manager Frank Macklin is sent to reorganize one of them - the one which happens to be the main company in his home town. At first his old buddies are reluctant to have him as new boss, but since he can't save all of them from the severe changes, the climate soon changes. Then he learns that he increased the profit so much, that the his bosses have decided to resell his brewery profitably to an incompetent Texas oil millionaire...
Keywords: brewery, independent-film, iowa, obscene-finger-gesture, title-based-on-song