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...Arlington, Mass. product certainly uses his size to dominate would-be blockers. But it is Ezekiel’s knack for tracking down opposing ballcarriers that has again thrust him into contention for the Buck Buchanan Award, presented annually to Division I-AA’s top defender...
Refreshingly, Around the Bend, director Jordan Roberts’ debut film, which won two awards at this year’s Montreal Film Festival (the Jury award and Best Actor for Christopher Walken), reveals an organic push and pull that approaches the mostly shapeless narrative of real relationships...
...moved from Perth to the south coast as a boy. Unlike Vic, the author hasn't much to be disappointed by. With a cabinet of literary trophies for his clean, muscular prose (Nicole Kidman is negotiating to star in an adaptation of his 2002 Miles Franklin Award?winning Dirt Music), this former small-town boy is the ultimate sea-changer. Yet in The Turning, Winton presides as the deity of disappointment - from the opening lines of the first story, Big World, where two beachcombing mates graduate from high school to find "nothing really happens, not even summer itself...
Last month, the Harvard Lampoon presented their Wheelwright Award to the famous rhythm-and-blues singer James Brown for his “outstanding contributions to human life.” It seems the revered publication has sunk to a new low, by lauding, however facetiously, the so-called “contributions” of a man who faced and pleaded no contest to criminal charges of domestic violence just this past January.If Brown had assaulted a random woman on the street, society would brand him a dangerous man. Even the Lampoon would not honor someone seen...
October may be Domestic Violence Awareness Month, but this award only shows how a national tragedy is tolerated by our culture on a daily basis. Given the magnitude of the domestic violence problem in the United States, one would expect us to take it more seriously. A Commonwealth Fund survey found that almost one in three American women has been physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend. In another survey one in five female high school students reported having experienced violence in a relationship. In fact, most violence against women is committed by the men closest to them...