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...turnabout is proving contagious. Sulak has sold her slide kits to health-care workers in 44 states. More significant, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which has long been on the other bank of the sex-ed divide, will honor her with a presidential award next spring. Meanwhile, a group of more than 400 doctors collaborated on an abstinence CD-ROM, Prescriptions for Parents: A Physicians' Guide to Adolescence and Sex, released last month by the National Physicians Center for Family Resources. "Parents and children want medical facts, not a one-sided moralist approach," says Dianna Lightfoot, the center...
...piece on the role of terrorists in filmmaking," he says. New U.S. immigration rules require a 90-day background check on some visa applicants, making it especially difficult for men from Muslim countries to obtain entry permits. When Kiarostami - whose 1997 Taste of Cherry won the best picture award at Cannes - submitted his visa request at the U.S. embassy in Paris, he learned he would not be granted one before December. Another director might have called a press conference to denounce the Americans. But with a modesty that also characterizes his work, Kiarostami, 62, refused to use his stature even...
Last night’s award recipients represented four continents...
...they made good on their pledge to bring Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood. During a rowdy ceremony in a campus lecture hall, Wood won a chicken-wing-eating contest and took home the Lampoon’s “Best Actor of All Time” award...
Whether he won the award despite this performance or as a direct result of it, Nash is grateful for the opportunity he had to pursue cutting-edge theatrics in college. The appreciation was mutual, and Harvard invited him back for the ARTS First Festival in 1998 and later to teach theater in the Freshman Arts Program (FAP). He has since become a favorite character among students and proctors in FAP and has inspired the coinage of such adjectives as “Nashtastic” and “Nashty...