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...which suggests that the experts have been gazing into the wrong crystal ball. Take into account that Capote, another Best Picture finalist, was shot in Winnipeg, and you'll see that the real question should be: Which Canadian film will...
...Native American writer, born fragile and poor on a destitute Indian reservation, published an essay, "The Blood Runs like a River Through My Dreams," in Esquire. It earned a National Magazine Award nomination and was later expanded into a memoir of the same title that became a finalist for a PEN/Martha Albrand Award. That rez-to-riches tale of courage and redemption sounds like a Horatio Alger story, doesn't it? It should be a movie. Or at least an episode of A&E's Biography. Of course, I'm biased, because, well, it's my story. Kind...
...Reservation in Washington State, I published a story, This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona, in Esquire in 1993. My story, which features an autobiographical character named Thomas Builds-the-Fire who suffers a brain injury at birth and experiences visionary seizures into his adulthood, was a finalist for a National Magazine Award and the basis for the film Smoke Signals, which won the Audience Award at Sundance...
...give them a course that puts everything in terms of AIDS and cancer—mostly AIDS,” Mehta says. “And that does make it interesting—for short periods.”Mehta, who was a 2005 Intel Science Talent Search finalist with a project in bioengineering, and who enrolled in the course to fulfill a concentration requirement, says the course does not meet the needs of students who already have significant science backgrounds.“I feel like since half of the freshman class is in it, and not all entered...
SCHENECTADY, N.Y.—One good thing doesn’t always lead to another. Despite having earned a series split in hostile territory against last year’s NCAA finalist North Dakota over winter break, the No. 13 Harvard men’s hockey team sputtered on offense—especially on the power play—against an unranked Union team on Friday night at the Messa Rink. Although the Crimson fared well on faceoffs, winning 59 percent of them, that success seemed to be the only positive note on a dismal night for the Harvard...