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...Good Karma Re "Marriage Rows" [Feb. 12]: news of forced marriages and honor killings, two cruel practices of the unsophisticated Asian community, has always saddened me. I finished Jasvinder Sanghera's memoir Shame in four days. I pray more socially minded Asian women follow Sanghera's footsteps in setting up refuge centers for Asian women. I congratulate her for founding the organization Karma Nirvana, not for the rocky path she has taken. M.S. Shah Jahan Colombo...
AWARDED. Bruce Crandall, 74, retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel whose rescue of 70 wounded during the Battle at Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam was depicted in the 2002 film We Were Soldiers; the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor; in a White House ceremony in which President George W. Bush hailed him as a hero; in Washington. Over a 14-hour period on Nov. 14, 1965, he piloted 22 flights, mostly under enemy fire, saying later that leaving the scene was "never a consideration ... They were my people down there, and they trusted in me to come...
Goffredo has been named Ivy League Player of the Week three times in his career and earned another honor yesterday when he was named a Second Team Academic All-American by ESPN the Magazine. The captain is the fifth player in team history to be named an Academic All-American. The most recent winner before him was three-time team Most Valuable Player Matt Stehle ’06, who was named to the Second Team last season...
...Woman of the Year. “For someone who never could have ever gotten close to getting into Harvard, I think this is even better,” Stiller said as he thanked the Pudding, the nation’s oldest undergraduate drama troupe, for the honor. But before he could be crowned the 41st Man of the Year, Stiller had to jump through a few hoops during the traditional roast, conducted by Pudding producers Evan W. Eachus ’08 and Scott A. Wilmore ’08.The roast was followed by the premiere of the Pudding?...
...Sundance's top prizewinner last year, the teen drama Quinceanera, won the John Cassavetes Award for a film shot for less than $500,000. A new award was created in honor of Robert Altman, which starting next year will be given to a director and acting ensemble, an acknowledgement of Altman's knack for corralling sprawling casts...