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...Nominations for February's Academy Awards are due by 5 p.m. on Jan. 12 - less than 24 hours after the Golden Globes telecast. Some pundits speculate that a strong showing at the Golden Globes could sway Oscar voters at the last second. Case in point: last time around, the HFPA chose Atonement and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as the best films of the year. The former went on to receive a Best Picture Oscar...
...always a plus to have the opportunity to play up a level,” Stone said. “This will be the case at the Holiday Camp [for Bassett]. That environment definitely helps accelerate one’s development...
...Kelli K. Okuji ’10 and Anna M. Kamerow ’11 co-founded Harvard for Free the Slaves, a pilot chapter of Bales’ organization. “Modern-day slavery is happening even in America now,” said Kamerow, describing a case of a man from Texas who took kids from Africa and forced them into a boys’ choir to make a profit. “It is one of the most exciting and perhaps the most combatable human right issues we are facing today...
...combining Weitzman’s solution and the willingness of many students at the College to make a real difference in their carbon footprint, it’s possible to imagine a scenario where Harvard could serve as a test case of sorts. By recording every student’s energy usage and charging them accordingly, the administration could create real monetary incentives for students to live a greener lifestyle...
...some Afghans, however, it may be too late. Among Samimi's other rape cases is 11-year-old Sweeta, whose attacker was protected by his employer, a local commander. The family's repeated attempts to bring the rapist to justice have been borne little fruit. In an interview with TIME this summer, President Karzai was told about Sweeta's case and promised to look into it, but Sweeta's sister Saleha had already given up on the government, and wondered if the past seven years of foreign intervention have brought any progress at all to Afghanistan. "If the Taliban were...