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...first film to be affiliated with Perry's 34th Street Films, and in the case of Oprah it marks her biggest move yet to use her media empire in service of a film that doesn't feature her in the cast. Two years ago she stood behind The Great Debaters - a film that went on to gross only $30 million. She produced and co-starred in 1998's Beloved, 12 years after she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in The Color Purple. If Precious were to be crowned Best Picture next February, Winfrey could well be singled...
...fervently anticommunist junta, memories of this Chinese patronage are still fresh. It also doesn't help Burmese nationalism that large parts of Mandalay, the country's second largest city and historic royal capital, have turned into a giant Chinatown. "The SPDC wants to remake its image as the new great kings of Burma," says Aung Kyaw Zaw, the former communist rebel who now lives in Yunnan. "So even if they take advantage of China for business reasons, they don't want any foreigners interfering in their kingdom...
...assembled a 49-yard drive. When the offensive machine stalled out on the Holy Cross 15, Harvard coach Tim Murphy passed on the field goal and instead opted to give Gordon the ball in a fourth-and-three situation.“I didn’t feel great about where we were for a field goal,” Murphy said. “We wanted to try to get something done there. We needed seven points to win the game.”Gordon pushed forward, hitting a wall of linemen. As he struggled to make a hole...
...moving the chains.“I just felt like their offense is good enough that you can’t guarantee that you’re going to get them off the field,” Murphy said. “I didn’t feel great about where we were for a field goal. We wanted to try to get something done there. We needed seven points to win the game.”In the final frame, Randolph again showed why he’s the two-time defending Conference Player of the Year. With just...
...aggressive posturing of a rising giant like China. It would be better, says Bhaskar, for India and China to slowly forge a constructive pan-Asian consensus and do away with the "post-colonial baggage" that animates the current Sino-Indian border dispute. But as talk of a new Asian "Great Game" gains favor, history and geography may not be so easy to overcome...