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Best Female Actor: Recipients are always the hardest to find, and with good reason: most of the roles Hollywood writes for women are pure trash. This year, however, there was a great performance in a most unlikely place. Julianne Moore, playing the motherly porn star of Boogie Nights, blew the lid off her role...
...thrall of the Clinton charisma; his Jack is a figure that rockets off the page. In the film Stanton is less grand and less sexy, and Travolta plays it subdued, a tad mopish. His smile looks startled, as if he had just sniffed ammonia. He has the hardest job: while everyone else gets to crack wise, he has to make political platitudes sound like poetry and Stanton's skunkish behavior smell almost sweet. His Stanton is a large man unsure whether he's big enough for a job he would kill...
Even when a couple can deal with less-than-total understanding of what's going on, Dr. Kadison believes that one of the hardest things is to find "the balance between relationships and work--whether that's academic work or research that they're doing or a hobby." At Harvard, the consensus is that this dating challenge exists because getting admitted in the first place depends on proving that same commitment to work...
...America's greatest attributes is its ability to foster and nurture competing conceptions of the good life. The hardest part for many of us, however, is trying to figure out just what the good life is. The other day, a friend of mine claimed to have figured it out: "College is the good life," he proclaimed...
...Soros, have big stakes in metals-mining operations. And Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has been talking about either inflation or deflation at various times in the past few months. Either one could knock the stock market for a loop, and Buffett's highfliers probably would be among the hardest...