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...kids with beards--as Billy Wilder called them--are graybeards, and a younger generation is getting its turn. Paul Thomas Anderson, writer-director of the critics' darling There Will Be Blood, is 37. Jason Reitman, whose Juno is the only $100 million box-office hit of the five Best Picture finalists, is just 30. That leaves those two sassy outsiders--Joel Coen, 53, and his brother Ethan, 50--in the mainstream, though their entry, No Country for Old Men, carries the double-whammy genre curse of being a kind of western-horror movie. Can it beat out Anderson's parched...
...magic phrase that brings luster to any career, sells tickets at the box office, moves millions of dvds. It's the gold standard for the film industry, pop culture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Get one, and when you die, the headline on your obit will proclaim oscar winner...
...Asian American applicants to Harvard, checking off the “particular ethnic group” box on the Common Application just became more nerve-wracking. According to a study published Friday in the UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, affirmative action policies disadvantage Asian American applicants more than they do white ones. Charles V. Willie, a professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and an expert in school desegregation, attributes this finding to Asian Americans having the most integrated educational experiences and attending college at very high rates relative to other groups. Still, he said...
...team enters into its remaining ECAC schedule and vies for a spot in the NCAA Tournament.BENCH MINORSIn this high stakes game, both teams hit hard from the moment the puck dropped, but the referees called only one penalty in the first two periods...Nathan Gerbe went to the box at 18:36 in the second for the game’s first penalty...the teams combined for a total of four penalties, three of which went against BC...The Eagle’s overtime win marks the fourth time in five years that the Beanpot Championship ended in sudden death...
...First Period: Harvard 1-BU 0. The Terriers are holding up very well, out-shooting Harvard 11-6. There's only three sandwiches left in the press box, and I intend on getting one of them...