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<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/ifill_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />Before Gwen Ifill, senior correspondent and co-anchor for the PBS NewsHour, delivered her George D. Aiken Lecture and fielded questions from members of a packed Ira Allen Chapel on Sept. 30, she wanted to get a few things out of the way.

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/christo_gates_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />Natural light is scarce in the Fleming on a gray Monday -- and then Janie Cohen, the museum's director, opens the gallery where the work of legendary artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude is on exhibit, and the room sparks with exuberance and beauty and a sense of the utter whimsy somehow realized.

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/dewitt_chu_430x300.jpg" height="300" width="430" />A cheetah lies still in the grass. Finally, a gazelle comes into view. The cheetah plunges forward, reaches sixty-five miles per hour in three seconds, and has the hapless gazelle by the jugular in less than a minute. Then it must catch its breath, resting before eating.

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/wretches_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />No one is going to mistake <em>Wretches and Jabberers</em> for <em>Easy Rider</em>. Yet the new documentary from director Gerardine Wurzburg could arguably be filed under "road movies" together with the iconic sixties film.