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...directed Once after a stint as The Frames' bass player, in part because he thinks his 16-year-old niece's generation has dismissed the movie musical genre as uncool. "It's a shame people are missing out," Carney says. He's onto something - Once won the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival this year, and it has tough-to-charm critics swooning...
...other words, you would want someone like Al Gore-the improbably charismatic, Academy Award-winning, Nobel Prize-nominated environmental prophet with an army of followers and huge reserves of political and cultural capital at his command. There's only one problem. The former Vice President just doesn't seem interested. He says he has "fallen out of love with politics," which is shorthand for both his general disgust with the process and the pain he still feels over the hard blow of the 2000 election, when he became only the fourth man in U.S. history to win the popular vote...
...courts, Valkin was Harvard’s one nominee from among 41 Crimson varsity sports for the prestigious NCAA Sportsmanship Award, which will be announced in July. Valkin looks to add the accolade to an already long list, including a complete sweep of all three of Harvard’s team awards. His teammates chose him both as the Most Valuable Player and the Most Improved Player, while his coaches gave him the “Above and Beyond” award...
...were very disappointed to read in The Crimson (“CollegeBoxes to Return”, news, May 4) that Harvard has decided to award a contract to a company with proven ineptitude at logistical performance and customer service, despite the administration being urged by undergraduates to not submit our property to the mercy of incompetent hands for a second consecutive year...
...Dreams of Speaking looms as a literary dark horse for next month's Miles Franklin Award (favorites include Peter Carey's Theft and Alexis Wright's Carpentaria), comes the Perth-based writer's Sorry (Vintage; 218 pages). Just as Sixty Lights segued seamlessly into Dreams, this pained, poetic tale of a young girl wracked by dreams of speaking seems to have been born from its predecessor. "We take it for granted, don't we?" muses 12-year-old Perdita Keene, a free spirit made mute by the violent death of her English anthropologist father near Broome, Western Australia, in World...