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...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...
...didn’t know I could be heard. It was a fools threading where angels fared to go. I was just lucky. 9. FM: In “Autobiography of My Mother,” Xuela’s decision to shun the love of Roland and chose to marry Dr. Bailey is shocking. Why does such a strong character choose a path of self-defeat? Why doesn’t she choose her happy ending?JK: You say the correct words. A strong character chooses for herself. The point isn’t horrible or not horrible...
...Despite this and other shifts, Lula’s government is not antagonistic to the legacy of Cardoso’s stabilization policies. The president and his left wing Workers’ Party chose to uphold the economic orthodoxy of their predecessor. Brazil’s interest rate remains among the highest in the world at 13.75 percent. This demonstrates that the left and the right have actually agreed on a plan for the country. Their issues are different—modernization of the tax system vs. freedom for the federal police, or control of the government budget vs. poverty...
...mourning. “I lost my father at the end of my freshman year, so I’m interested in how different cultures deal with death,” she said.Brants, who is also a self-described “foodie,” said she chose to travel to Puebla because the region is known for its cuisine, and she would like to study how loved ones remember the dead through cooking.Merging these two interests, she said she hopes to produce a cookbook integrating recipes, interviews, and photographs.EXPLORING THE HIMALAYASLike Brants, Rizzo will be exploring how people...
...Alfred Mosher Butts, who figured Americans could use a bit of distraction during the bleak economic times. After determining what he believed were the most enduring games in history - board games, numbers games like dice or cards and letter games like crossword puzzles - he combined all three. He then chose the frequency and the distribution of the tiles by counting letters on the pages of the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune and The Saturday Evening Post. For more than a decade he tweaked and tinkered with the rules while trying - and continually failing - to attract a corporate...