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...stint at Andy Warhol's Factory in New York, Toscani took on the Benetton brand account, turning out memorable ads of young people of different races and nationalities. His great breakthrough, though, can be traced to 1991, when he simply slapped the green Benetton logo on a photojournalist's award-winning image of a dying AIDS patient surrounded by his family. Since then, the son of a renowned Milan photojournalist has snapped his own striking frames of Balkan war victims, children from a Sicilian Mafia town and death-row inmates, the last of which set off widespread anger...
...ladylike was Kerr (pronounced "car")? Three times the New York Film Critics' Circle named her best actress prize, and two of those awards came for playing nuns, in Black Narcissus in 1947 and Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison a decade later. (The third was as the wife of sheepherder Robert Mitchum in the 1960 The Sundowners.) How congenial? In 1956 she was given a Hollywood bauble called the Golden Apple Award as Most Cooperative Actress...
...Most cooperative and most respected: she was an Academy Award finalist six times in a dozen years, earning Oscar nominations for Edward, My Son; From Here to Eternity; The King and I; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; Separate Tables and The Sundowners. But Kerr never took home a competitive statuette. In 1994, the Academy voted her a lifetime achievement award, proclaiming her "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance...
...delegation of Jews visiting the Dalai Lama with an investigation into the possibilities for meditative mysticism in a Jewish context. The avid curiosity it provoked helped launch a thousand Kabbalah classes. Kamenetz's follow-up, Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Masters, won the National Jewish Book Award. But his latest offering, The History of Last Night's Dream, diverges in content and tone. TIME's David Van Biema wondered whether he was straying from his fan base...
...ECAC selection for the 2007-2008 season after making both the All-ECAC and All-Ivy first teams last year. Chu is a two-time Olympian herself, earning a silver medal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games. In her final season at Harvard, she received the Patty Kazmaier Award, given to the top women’s college player in the nation. She is now an assistant coach at Minnesota-Duluth. The Four Nations Cup was first held in 2000 after Sweden joined the Three Nations Cup, which consisted of Canada, the United States, and Finland. Canada...