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...still finding new ways to distinguish herself.During a brunch ceremony at the Hilton Lake Placid Resort in Lake Placid, N.Y, site of the 2007 NCAA Women’s Frozen Four, the USA Hockey Foundation selected Chu as the recipient of this year’s Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, given to the top player in the college game.“In my 13 years of coaching at Harvard, no one has distinguished themselves more than Julie,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said at the ceremony. “Her commitment to her teammates, coaches, and school...
Denzel Washington added a touch of “Crimson Tide” to Harvard yesterday. The Academy Award-winning actor arrived on campus yesterday morning to look at possible sites for future films. Director of the Harvard Foundation S. Allen Counter and Robert P. Mitchell, the director of communications for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences led him on a tour around campus. “He was looking at sites for future possible films,” Counter said. “He really admires the place.” Counter did not specify which of Washington?...
...concerned for the victims of Darfur and the women of Afghanistan, but who remembers the Bosnian war crimes? Writer-director Jasmila Zbanic’s first film, “Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams,” was nominated for the Sundance Film Festival and awarded the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Zbanic, a 32-year-old Bosnian, tells the story of her struggling country in the aftermath of the war. Esma (Mirjana Karanovic), one of the tens of thousands of rape victims from the Bosnian war, is trying to make ends meet...
...Palme d’Or, the most prestigious award at the Cannes Film Festival, has been given to such groundbreaking films as “Apocalypse Now,” “Blow-Up,” and “Pulp Fiction.” The newest entry added to this list of historic cinema is Ken Loach’s “The Wind That Shakes The Barley,” an incredibly wan and uninspired drama chronicling the Irish Civil War of the 1920s. Although the Cannes jury embraced the film, the latest offering from...
...lifted as they have never been lifted in many years." Twenty-five years later, McCain was a fiscal conservative and security hawk serving his third term in Barry Goldwater's old Senate seat when Nancy Reagan picked him to accept the American Conservative Union's Conservative of the Century Award on behalf of her husband, who was too incapacitated by Alzheimer's to do it himself...