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...concentrate on directing; Gran Torino is the ninth feature (including the documentary Piano Blues) that he's helmed since turning 70 in 2000. He doesn't do much work in front of the camera anymore, but what's there is choice. His last starring role, as the grizzled fight trainer in 2004's Million Dollar Baby, earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, while the movie won for picture, actress (Hilary Swank), supporting actor (Morgan Freeman) and, of course, director. Nobody else has directed Eastwood in a movie since Wolfgang Petersen made In the Line of Fire back...
...Delhi's bursting slums, residents are often left to fight for buckets of water delivered via trucks, a process that is time consuming and expensive. The Sachdevs pay less than 2˘ per 26 gal. of water; the poor might pay that for a single quart from a private truck or even more for bottled water. "The rich end up paying just a fraction of the price to water their lawn than the poor do just to stay alive," says William Fellows, the regional water, sanitation and health adviser for UNICEF/South Asia. Worse, waste of the little water that is available...
...last night against Dartmouth (4-1, 0-1 Ivy League) the Crimson had to fight tooth and nail to pull out a 5-4 win over the Big Green...
...title in the first edition of the Beanpot; this year MIT added to the already mounting pressure from the tough Brandeis squad, giving Harvard more than a run for its money.“We struggled, it was unexpected against the MIT men who gave them a good fight,” Brand said. “They all fenced extremely well, specifically the sabre squad…so it was a close one, the men looked very sluggish, but they picked it up against BC.”The men seemed to need the break between tough...
Facing a jump-shooting team on a hot streak, the Harvard men’s basketball team (3-2) was unable to fight fire with fire, falling 75-59 to Boston University (4-2) at Lavietes Pavilion last night...