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...With Bashir was the best foreign language film. (Can't explain; too complicated.) The award for best actor in a drama went to Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler. Kate Winslet snagged both the dramatic actress prize for Revolutionary Road and the supporting actress trophy for The Reader. Ireland's Colin Farrell (In Bruges) and England's Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) received the top prizes for acting in a comedy. And the late Heath Ledger, in The Dark Knight, was declared best supporting actor, increasing his chances to become only the second actor to win a posthumous Oscar. The first...
...scared of a few animals. A trillion didn't come up very often," says Temple University mathematician John Allen Paulos, whose book Innumeracy addresses the topic. "There is a sense that when numbers are too big or too small, the brain just shuts off," says Colin Camerer, a professor of behavioral economics at the California Institute of Technology. "People either don't think about it at all or there is fear, an exaggerated reaction...
...advantage when Leitch fired a wrist shot from the right circle to beat Hoyle and take a 2-1 lead. Biega tied the game up again about five minutes into the last period when he deflected a shot on goal by freshman forward Colin Moore into the net. Biega now leads Harvard scoring with five goals on the season. “Some of the forwards had a break in the zone, and we were talking all week about just putting the puck on net and making things happen,” Biega said. “I just stuck...
Bush, George W. •description of by aide to Colin Powell as "this Sarah Palin-like President, because, let's face it, that's what he was" •eagerness on the part of three-fourths of the public for departure of •fondness for reading of is attested to by porcine former aide...
...have more to do with my life than I know." In other words, an artist, no matter his aim, is always writing his autobiography. He could also have said that each production of a play creates its own unique meaning. When Old Times had its premiere in London, with Colin Blakeley, Vivien Merchant and Dorothy Tutin as the threesome, it seemed the story of a man victimized by two women; in the Broadway version later that year, when the stars were Robert Shaw, Dorothy Tutin and Mary Ure, the man seemed the predator, the women his prey...