The MIT-Japan Program has announced the establishment of the Patricia Gercik Memorial Fund. The endowed fund will provide supplemental stipends to students seeking internships in Japan.Gercik served as managing director of the MIT-Japan Program for a
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Remember that Orson Welles himself didn t always look like Orson Welles. He was a master of makeup and disguise, and even when appearing in the first person, liked to use a little putty to build up a nose he considered a tad too snubbed. The impersonation of Welles by Christian McKay in Me and Orson Welles is the centerpiece of the film, and from it, all else flows. We can almost accept that this is the Great Man.
Twenty-four years after his death at 70, Welles is more than ever a Great Man. There is something about his manner, his voice and the way he carries himself that evokes greatness, even if it is only his own conviction of it. He is widely thought of as having made one masterpiece, Citizen Kane (1941) and several other considerable films, but flaming out into uncompleted projects and failed promise. Yet today even such a film as The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), with its ending destroyed by the studio, often makes lists of the greatest of all time.
Is the U.S.-Japan Alliance Still the ‘Cornerstone’ of Stability in Asia?
Japan is finally becoming an activist, sometimes ruthless defender of its interests a “normal” nation, in other words. The United States needs to start treating it as such.
TRIBUTES TO mark the sixtieth anniversary of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty last January celebrated the vision of its creators and its modern indispensability. Certainly, the successes are real. The treaty has kept a former enemy and advanced industrial power aligned with the United States and served as the foundation of America’s geopolitical position in East Asia. Japan is America’s most important ally in the region. But it is also worth remembering that the U.S.-Japan relationship owes a large measure of its success to good fortune. Over sixty years it has never been tested in a great power crisis. And fortune has bred complacency, especially on the American side.