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BEST known for her roles in such movies as The Year of Living Dangerously, which won her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the screen adaptation of Henry James' The Bostonians, Hunt has spent much of her career on the stage...
...decline of Ivy League basketball in relation to the top conferences has been self-inflicted, some coaches say. By refusing to award athletic scholarships or stipends and by holding extremely rigid academic standards, the Ivy League keeps itself out of the bidding for the top athletes in basketball...
...biotechnology labs across the country, researchers hailed the decision as long overdue. Last week the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded a patent to Harvard University for the development of a genetically engineered mouse. Although plants and bacteria have been patented for years, the Harvard award was the first ever for an animal. On Capitol Hill, however, angry Congressmen promptly called for a two-year halt to any future animal patents until the risks and benefits can be better assessed. Fumed Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon: "The Patent Office is playing fast and loose with a serious issue...
...hand him a gold-plated statuette in front of a billion people, and he finds heroic resources of good feeling. Just ask Bernardo Bertolucci. "It's incredible," the Italian filmmaker, 47, geysered the day after his The Last Emperor swept the Oscar ceremony. "First it was one award, then two, three, four, five, six-seven-eight-nine! It went beyond the individuals who won. I realized it was the movie itself. The movie was loved...
...Academy award-winning actress Linda Hunt last night told an audience of 200 students and local actors in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room that to understand the difference between film and theater acting "you have to go before the firing squad and learn about it on your feet...