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...Cannes Film Festival is like an Academy Award year, or a marathon political campaign, compressed into 12 days. In the first 11 days the jury (as well as the critics) sees the movies in competition for the Palme d'Or; and on the 12th evening, it announces the winners. Tomorrow is Cannes' election night, or Oscar Night; the 40 min. ceremony, with no production numbers or concession speeches, will be held in the Palais, and broadcast across Europe...
...Dickens and world politics, wrote mythic, brooding tales for kids--most famously the 1960s five-book series The Chronicles of Prydain. Of the evil sorcerers his protagonist fights to recover a stolen magical sword--enemies that bear a resemblance to actual oppressive political regimes--the two-time National Book Award winner said, "At heart, the issues raised in a work of fantasy are those we face in real life...
...season banquet. Liao scored 18 goals while adding 16 steals and four assists in an injury-shortened season. Liao broke her hand against Cal Tech and missed the season’s final twelve games. Fellow junior and co-captain Lauren Snyder earned a Coach’s Award from head coach Erik Farrar after a season where she scored 22 goals to go with 46 steals and ten blocks. Freshman Ariel Delgado picked up Rookie of the Year honors with a strong first campaign where she had a .514 save percentage and had 92 total saves. She also scored...
...award, given to a select group of students nominated by faculty members based on the quality of their senior theses or other academic projects, was founded in 1982 and includes a $3,500 prize. The prize’s stated goal is “promoting, improving and enhancing the quality of education” and “promoting excellence in the art of teaching...
...Hergé's favorite story was the 1960 Tintin in Tibet, which tells of Tintin's search for a Chinese boy, Chang (based on one of Hergé's closest friends), whose plane crashes in the Himalayas. Last year, the Dalai Lama himself awarded a "Truth of Light" award to the Hergé Foundation, which runs the late author's estate, as a gesture of thanks to "significant contributions to the public understanding of Tibet" through the book, written a year after the Dalai Lama was driven into exile by the Chinese government...