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...just as calculating about his career choices. "He was offered a stupendous amount of money to continue to do Roseanne," the sitcom he was on for 11 episodes, says his dad Nick Clooney. "I was thinking he could build a little nest egg and maybe acting would pay off after all. He said, 'No, I'll be in a cul-de-sac. I'll be that guy, and that's all I'll be.'" He pitched sitcom pilots and dramas and eventually won an Oscar nomination for co-writing the original screenplay for Good Night, and Good Luck. He makes...
...bring attention to the world's plights isn't, if not vanity, at least striving after wind. "I've been very depressed since I got back. I'm terrified that it isn't in any way helping. That bringing attention can cause more damage. You dig a well or build a health-care facility and they're a target for somebody," he says. "A lot more people know about Darfur, but absolutely nothing is different. Absolutely nothing...
...What is it like being on the Creative Writing faculty at Harvard? CME: It’s very exciting. I am really thrilled to be among fiction writers and poets and other literary types. I am hoping to really build cross-over relationships. I am trying to find ways for my playwrights to see their work on its legs. The strength is that there are so many literary people, the challenge is connecting them to production because playwrights need to see their work on stage. I am hoping to build bridges to see if new plays can become part...
...last week named Jamie Clark as the new Virginia and James Welch head coach for the Harvard’s men’s soccer team. Clark comes to the Crimson after spending two years as assistant coach of the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame and will look to build on the achievements of previous coach, John Kerr, who left Harvard in December to take a head coaching position at his alma mater, Duke University. “We were all really impressed that everywhere he went, he was successful,” freshman mid-fielder Robert Millock said...
...surprising about the interrogation was the fact that Avila got away with it. After initial reports that the young man had been detained for his effrontery, he appeared a week later on another video denying that he was jailed and insisting that his confrontation with Alarcon was meant "to build better socialism and not to destroy it." He added: "What needs to be fixed, what needs to be changed and revised, [we want to] do it within the revolution...