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...nominators had quite a pool of Harvard academics to choose from. “I can think of about 20 people who deserve it just from this neighborhood,” said Gawande. The MacArthur Fellowship program has gained much prestige since its inception in 1981. Past winners include Harold Bloom, Twyla Tharp, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, and former Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould. Because the winners are chosen from nominations, not applications, the professors were taken by complete surprise. “I couldn’t believe it, I thought it was a prank caller...
...Zach Helm's clever, calculating script, Harold Crick (Ferrell) is a solitary, hard-working I.R.S. agent who, as he methodically brushes his teeth one morning, hears an authoritative female voice say that he is brushing his teeth. Indeed, everything he does, she describes. And Harold, whose lack of an inner life is his most distinctive feature and saving grace, suddenly is rudderless. "It's not schizophrenia," he patiently explains to a shrink he visits. "It's just a voice talking in my head." He also seeks advice from Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), an English professor who helps Harold locate...
...Here Comes the New Wave of Barack Obamas Harold Ford may be in one of the most closely watched electoral contests this year, but he's far from the only African-American candidate running in a major race...
...Harold Ford Has a Shot The G.O.P.'s weakness creates a chance in the Tennessee senate race for a certain kind of Democrat
...that Steele had some chance of winning against Mfume, whose support was small outside of his base of black Democrats. But that limited base cost him against Cardin, and the veteran congressman is a heavy favorite in a Democratic state like Maryland. The other African-American Senate candidate is Harold Ford in Tennessee, a conservative state that hasn't elected a Democrat since Al Gore represented it. And Ford, facing a millionaire opponent named Bob Corker, couldn't have been happy seeing Chafee win; now the Democrats will have to spend money that could have gone to Ford's campaign...