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...only once did the Best Picture Oscar go to a film whose director didn't receive a nomination: in 1990 with Driving Miss Daisy and Bruce Beresford. So the odds against Little Miss Sunshine are 70 to 1. That a lot of Oscar history the indie movie has to buck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A "Little" Twist to the Oscar Race | 1/29/2007 | See Source »

...corresponding drop in cancer rates. Also, the women increased their average consumption of fruits and vegetables only slightly, from four to five servings a day. "Maybe if we had gotten up to seven or so, on average, we would have been in a better place," says Shirley Beresford, a study leader and an epidemiologist at the University of Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: The Real Story About Low Fat | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...depressing profusion, along Australia?s northeast coast?just ask rockers Bob Geldof and Mick Jagger, British mogul Sir Richard Branson (who recently bought an island, no less, in the Noosa River upstream from the resort), Austrian tennis ace Thomas Muster or Driving Miss Daisy and Last Dance director Bruce Beresford. Noosa offers a boho lifestyle and an alluring menu of attractions, natural and man-made alike. The geography of the region has conspired to create the perfect place for forgetting that the rest of the world exists. The low-rise town fronts a stunning beach and is set between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Coming Up from Down Under | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

...year they occur. But capital expenditures can be subtracted from revenues a little at a time over many years. In the short term, that lets money flow to the bottom line and boosts financial results. It's the oldest trick in the book, and mind-numbingly simple. Dennis Beresford teaches Accounting 101 at the University of Georgia and says what happened at WorldCom is "plain vanilla" trickery that he covers on the second day of class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WorldCon | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

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