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...malls, which sometimes prohibit the bell ringers on the grounds that they block foot traffic and invite others to solicit at entryways, the Salvation Army says it raised $118 million through the program in 2007. (The charity is also in the process of distributing a $1.5 billion donation from Joan Kroc, the wife of the founder of McDonald's, to open community centers around the country.) In the U.S., there are nearly 8,000 Salvation Army locations, and more than 3 million volunteers assisting nearly 30 million people a year. Worldwide, the charity operates in more than 100 countries...
...Milk documentary, The Mayor of Castro Street. Today we get Milk, a hurtling, minutely researched, close-to-irresistible biopic starring Academy Award winner Sean Penn, whose performance is likely to be nominated for another Oscar, as is this film. That makes it official: Harvey Milk is the gay Joan...
...Wall. New York's MoMA takes an intensive look at a decade of work by Spanish artist Joan Miró, with Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937. The show is based around Miro's famous declaration that he wanted to "assassinate painting," and examines his energetic attempts to transcend the medium through collage, drawing - and painting. Through Jan. 12, 2009. 11 West 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, New York City...
...other finalists in the non-fiction category were journalists Jane Meyer and Jim Sheeler, and Cambridge resident Joan Wickersham...
...York Times noted the following day that "of the principal prize winners only one, Mr. Algren, had been on the best-seller lists" and all three "shared the common lot of being in part hard to read." Other renowned (if narratively challenging) recipients over the years include Joan Didion, William Faulkner, Saul Bellow and Susan Sontag...