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...fitting moniker given to last weekend’s tension-filled testimony by Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Randy Wolf. Just as at the reactionary height of the Cold War, Congress has taken up an issue sure to arouse passions in an effort to gain a measure of publicity and acclaim. The steroid scandal is quickly becoming the sport’s Red Scare, and the intervention of Congress is a campaign to seize the moral high ground in the affair and elevate the image of government at the expense of baseball players who have been hamstrung by mistrust...
...graduate and former visiting critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), who has received international acclaim for his unique work, was named the 2005 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Award yesterday...
DIED. MORRIS ENGEL, 86, filmmaker whose 1953 Little Fugitive--a $30,000, documentary-style tale of a boy who runs away because he mistakenly believes he has killed his brother--brought him an Oscar nomination, international acclaim and credit from such directors as Franois Truffaut and John Cassavetes for influencing the emerging indie-film movement; in New York City...
During the decades he has labored behind the camera, Kwon-taek has amassed considerable critical acclaim: he has won every prize offered by South Korea’s three annual film awards ceremonies; received countless laurels from major international film festivals; and in 2002, he added a Best Director prize from Cannes to his trophy case for his film Chihwaseon...
...Your War On,” when Rees didn’t even think he had an audience, he was merciless in his mockery. Thanks to the visceral outrage emanating from every panel, the strip managed to tap into a well of liberal anger that propelled it to international acclaim. Visually primitive but absolutely fearless in its incisive political bite, “Get Your War On” quickly became an internet phenomenon and Rees joined the ranks of the brave few media personas who were willing to poke fun at the freshly wounded America...