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University President Lawrence H. Summers will bestow the medal upon the famed musician on May 9 in a ceremony that will conclude the Arts First festival and include a discussion with Ma about his life experiences...
...could logically go to any one of its nominees except, perhaps, to the most deserving, the Portuguese-language gangster epic City of God. Capturing the Friedmans and Fog of War seemed locked in a taut two-man battle for Documentary Feature until My Architect quietly reaped enough attention to bestow it front-runner status. The Return of the King will likely sweep up most of the technical awards as Best Picture forerunners are prone to do, but the vivid restoration of 19th century Japan in The Last Samurai will give it a run for its money in Art Direction...
...necessity: to maintain a high circulation, she must appeal to as broad an audience as possible. But she has proved herself committed to discovering and fostering new talent. In 2003, for example, she joined the Council of Fashion Designers of America in creating a fund that each year will bestow money and guidance on at least two emerging designers...
...wonder lovers talk all night or walk till dawn, write extravagant poetry and self-revealing e-mails, cross continents or oceans to hug for just a weekend, change jobs or lifestyles, even die for one another. Drenched in chemicals that bestow focus, stamina and vigor, and driven by the motivating engine of the brain, lovers succumb to a Herculean courting urge...
Kris Pister wants to give us a world in which we never lose our car keys again. This Berkeley, Calif., engineering professor foresees office cubicles that change temperature depending on who's sitting in them, traffic lights that know which roads are the most crowded and bestow green lights accordingly, and possessions that tell you exactly where you left them. And how is this brave new world to come about? Through specks of something nearly as tiny, cheap and ubiquitous as dust...