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There are many places the Gateses could go together for an adventure. That they chose to come to India and Bangladesh to sit on concrete floors and talk about tuberculosis and diarrhea sets them apart from most globe-trotting billionaires. But their relationship with the developing world is even more complicated than that. As they tour hospitals and huts, they seem to delight in these escapades, not just because they are intellectually captivated by the scientific challenge of treating the diseases of the poor but also because they are convinced that they are living through a historic inflection point when...
...Kirkland House resident who joined The Providence Journal immediately after graduating the College and worked his way up to publisher of the newspaper, died Tuesday at Rhode Island Hospital. He was 71. The cause was a blood clot in the brain, Hamblett’s son told The Boston Globe. As the Journal’s publisher and chief executive for nearly 12 years, Hamblett oversaw the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage in 1994 of corruption and patronage in the Rhode Island state court system. A long-time friend and coworker, Joel Stark, said Hamblett?...
...might have heard, but this is hardly a fault. The performances are very committed, and never showy. “Brokeback Mountain” this week has picked up the top prize from the Los Angeles, New York, and Boston Film Critics Circles, and garnered seven Golden Globe nominations. Perhaps for the first time in recent memory we can say a film is truly deserving of these accolades. Fear not—the “Big Gay Movie” is a rousing success. So much so that you’ll probably start calling it by its actual...
...Schamus says he hopes mothers worldwide will be the voice of this movie. “Brokeback Mountain”’s strategy seems to be working. Already the winner of the 2005 Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, multiple Golden Globe nominations and with more accolades pouring in every day, the film has also experienced box-office success. The film has sold nearly ten times as many advance tickets as another recent Focus Features’ release, “Pride and Prejudice.” “We’ve sold...
...trying to maintain an undefeated record. And the game will probably not set attendance records. But after several years of high-profile match ups against perennial rival Dartmouth, including one game in 2003 that was labeled “The Best Show in Town” by the Boston Globe, when the no. 9 Harvard women’s ice hockey team takes the ice tonight against the Big Green at the Bright Hockey Center, they will be fighting for more than just momentum. “It’s been a great rivalry,” said Harvard...