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...Former Vice President Al Gore's 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth grossed over $20 million, earned two Academy Award nominations and was widely credited for bringing the issue of global warming into American living rooms. But Gore's team believes there are still many regions throughout the country - particularly in the Midwest - that still have not gotten the message. Now through the Climate Project - an initiative to spread awareness and challenge citizens and governments to take action against the effects of global warming - Gore has trained nearly 1,000 of his foot soldiers to give the same presentation that...
...Scotland was distributed through a Hollywood studio, which gave it a bigger audience than any British studio could. The film now has one Oscar nomination for its star Forest Whitaker and five bafta nominations. As Macdonald knows, it's the Oscar that will stick. He won an Academy Award in 2000 for his documentary on the Munich Olympics, One Day in September, and a bafta four years later for Touching the Void. "Winning a bafta is like winning a literary award," he says. "You're happy, your friends phone you up, and a week later everyone's forgotten about...
...Red’s 4-0 league record this season has been the play of sophomore guard Jeomi Maduka. After reeling in the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award last season, Maduka (14.7 points and 8.4 rebounds per game) is making her case for Player of the Year honors...
...intensely about teaching, but a lot of those same people think the institution doesn’t care,” Skocpol said in an interview last week.Proven skill in teaching is ignored or even stigmatized during FAS performance reviews, according to the report.“Every teaching award earns a warning of how I should not wander off research,” the report quotes an anonymous Ph.D. candidate as saying.Senior professors quoted in the report voiced the same concerns, worrying that a focus on teaching may prove detrimental to their younger colleagues’ careers...
...diorama catapult, and a horde of rampaging Huns. But will he be able to deal with the barbs offered up by Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals? The world will soon find out. Stiller will receive the Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year (MOY) award for 2007, the group announced Monday. He and his female counterpart, Woman of the Year (WOY) Scarlett Johansson, will be feted with roasts on successive weekends this February, as the student theatrical group presses on toward the premiere of its 159th original production, “The Tent Commandments...