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This year, my colleagues on the Undergraduate Council and I will be working with students, administrators and members of the faculty to address some of Harvard's academic shortcomings, to foster a vibrant intellectual community and to help each of us rediscover that great passion more often throughout the year...
...expense of a private channel ($4,000 to more than $30,000). Still, private adoptions account for about half the roughly 60,000 U.S. adoptions each year, and demand is robust partly because of the growing demands of infertile couples. Many children available through agencies have spent years in foster homes and can have developmental or health problems that dismay would-be parents. Many countries, including Britain, ban privately arranged adoptions to ensure no one profits from trading babies. But in the U.S., private adoptions are so widely accepted that companies often reimburse fees as a benefit to employees...
...Britain, from a private social worker. That may have passed muster in Arkansas, but it is unacceptable in Britain. In the wake of a torrent of public disgust, officials in northern Wales obtained a court order and last week swooped down on the Kilshaw home, removing the twins to foster care, at least for now. The Kilshaws plan to contest that move at a hearing this week...
...fava beans and internal human organs--in 1991's The Silence of the Lambs. The critically acclaimed thriller not only salvaged Hopkins' lagging movie career, it also catapulted him from character actor to bona fide movie star. The movie won five Oscars--including Best Actor (Hopkins), Best Actress (Jodie Foster) and Best Picture--and took a huge bite out of the box office. A decade later, the slickly subdued, eerily serene Dr. Hannibal Lecter still inhabits our nightmares because Hopkins knows that as an actor, "the quieter you are, the more terrifying...
Critics bruised the novel pretty badly, but Hopkins got a kick out of it: "I thought it was way over the top but interesting." Foster wasn't so taken. Early on, De Laurentiis refused to pay her $20 million asking price, then after she read the screenplay, she opted out, saying she preferred to direct a movie of her own. "She need the picture more than we need her," scoffs the producer. "I believe she's wrong for this movie. We have a different story, mature woman with sex appeal, and I don't think it's right for Jodie...