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...What about Best Picture? I don't consider that race to be close. Slumdog Millionaire is at even money, with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at 7 to 2, Frost/Nixon at 5 to 1, Milk at 10 to 1 and The Reader at 15 to 1. If there's an upset in this category, I think it will come from deeper in the stack - not from Benjamin Button, but perhaps from Milk...
...smart and serious student, as well as “kind and gentle.” “She always went out of her way to be nice to me,” Shepard said. Karen L. Worth ’64, Des Forges’ close friend, echoed those sentiments, saying that Des Forges was “always thinking of other people,” from her time at Radcliffe through her later years. Worth and Des Forges met at Radcliffe and bonded over a shared dedication to the Phillip Brooks House Association, a student-run public...
...While business on the lover’s holiday seems not to have slumped, the local restaurant industry hasn’t dodged the effects of a declining economy, as diners have cut back on discretionary spending. One such casualty was café Z Square on JFK Street, which closed its doors in January after management complaints and flagging profits. At Small Plates, which opened in late 2007, co-owner Jerome R. Picca said that all the tables had been booked a week and a half in advance of the holiday. “You would never have guessed there...
...It’s so exciting for us because we came really close to winning last year,” co-captain Ashlinn O’Callaghan said. “Princeton was indoor [Heptagonals] champion, and they were at the top of the league, so it just means so much to us to come in first and really beat them...
...former chairlift operator) Maulana Fazlullah have brutally advanced across Swat - a region once known as the "Switzerland of Asia" - capturing more than four-fifths of the plush valley. Once a choice destination for honeymooners, Swat has over the past two years seen more than 1,500 people killed, close to 200 schools destroyed and girls' education banned, scores of beheadings and kidnappings, and more than 100,000 people driven from their homes. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West Frontier Province...