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...This year, DiCaprio's toughest competition for a Best Actor Oscar may be himself - he's pretty sensational as a Rhodesian jewel smuggler in Edward Zwick's Blood Diamond, due out in December. He's gone from precocious child star (in What's Eating Gilbert Grape) to teen idol (in Titanic) to full-fledged Actor, brilliant at allowing the viewer to discover, as if in confidence, the emotions that roil his characters' souls. In his third shot with Scorsese, after Gangs of New York and The Aviator, DiCaprio has become the director's new DeNiro - implosive instead of explosive...
...watched intensely, as is Rhode Island Republican Lincoln D. Chafee’s effort to keep his Senate seat in a race against Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse after narrowly winning his party’s primary. And who could forget the nationally spotlighted Senate race in Connecticut, which pits Democrat Edward “Ned” Lamont Jr. ’76 against former vice presidential candidate and incumbent Joseph I. Lieberman, now running as an independent, in what has turned into a referendum on the war in Iraq...
James F. Flug ’60 was chief counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54 from 1967 to 1973 and 2003 to 2006 and has served in a variety of other public interest legal positions during his four decades in Washington. He is a fellow at the Institute of Politics this term, leading a study group on “the Senate as a check on the President...
...vigilance, subjecting them to frequent re-training sessions seemed to lower the number of missed targets. “This additional funding will support real world testing for the new techniques and technologies being developed by scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital,” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass. said in a statement yesterday. “The result will be safer airports and safer air travel for millions of Americans...
...correlatives. Instead of the mock-Swedish subtitles from the film's opening, the show begins with a Finnish fish-slapping dance - this from a song Palin wrote called "Finland" and a bit in episode 28, when John and Michael ritually smite each other with fish to the music of Edward German. Later, a sound-off marching song flicks a reference to Palin's "Lumberjack Song" with the shouted cadence: "Become a knight and you'll go far / In suspenders...