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...center of this other Africa is Precious, "traditionally built," beautiful, independent and wise - the incarnation of a self-assured continent. But Minghella couldn't find her. "Over eight months, I went three times around a lap of England, the U.S. and Africa looking for an actor to play Precious," he says. "We workshopped it with eight or nine people, some very big stars. I basically gave up." Finally, while trawling YouTube two months before shooting was due to start, Minghella came across a poetry performance by Grammy Award?winning R&B singer Jill Scott, and "saw something...
...consulting when they enter Harvard, but not about alternative career paths,” Liu said. The talk kicked off with introductions, as the guest speakers described their eclectic array of current jobs—from president of a media production company to business director of the New England Patriots. Despite their diverse work experiences, the women touched on some common themes, particularly that of following one’s passion. “I almost feel like you don’t choose your passion. Your passion chooses you,” said Georgia...
Like Audrey Hepburn on the back of Gregory Peck's Vespa in Roman Holiday, Harry has enjoyed a whistle-stop tour of how commoners live - and die. He shared his flight back to England with two critically wounded soldiers. He admits he may be "a bullet magnet," a prize scalp for enemy forces and terrorists. Yet Harry has tasted something akin to ordinary life and he's eager for more. "It's bizarre," he mused in an interview recorded during his tour of duty. "I'm out here now, haven't really had a shower for four days, haven...
...pace set by the world economy knows all too well, this isn’t actually true. Harvard has long falsified this particular insight: We all know that it is perfectly possible to do brilliant work on beef and prunes (or pizza and HUDS bagels). But in Cambridge, England, it is in everyone’s interest to keep this fiction going...
...campaign that wasn't supposed to happen. "We cannot take anything, any area, any voter for granted," the city's newly elected mayor, Michael Nutter, told the crowd of perhaps 150. The race, he said, will be like this year's Super Bowl, in which the previously undefeated New England Patriots unexpectedly fell to the underdog New York Giants. And he means for the Pennsylvania's Clinton campaign to be the Giants. "We have our work cut out for us," he said. "But we have a real candidate who is a real person, and she really does care...