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...come from a long line of real cart horses," says Winslet the day after the lunch. "Very stoic, insides-made-of-iron people. So I can take any s___ you can fling at me. I can cope with any workload. I can deal with lack of sleep. I can multitask like you've no idea. But two weeks ago, I actually had a panic attack." She leans forward on a sofa in Mendes' production office in Manhattan's shabby-glam Meatpacking District and smiles. "My first one. I didn't know what it was! It was a little like when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Actress: Kate Winslet's Moment | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...Smith said. “Just go to the game, paint your face, and cheer them on.” Speakers said the lackluster attendance reflected broader issues discouraging participation in women’s sports, which they said suffer from a false comparison to male athletics, leading to lack of female athlete role models. Panelist Wendy Healy, general manager of recreation at Harvard, said female participation in athletics is also affected because some women are self-conscious about going to gyms or exercising. The group urged women to fight such a “stigma?...

Author: By Laura M. Fontanills, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Discusses Women’s Athletics | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...didn't come to work in thousand-dollar suits. He wore blue jeans and stayed up late and came to the crummy dives with us to eat." - Duane Woerth, former president of the Air Line Pilots Association, on Bloom's lack of pretense, Reuters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ron Bloom, Obama's Car Non-Czar | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...since the original study. Correspondingly, children are now more at risk for the contagious diseases that the vaccine typically prevents. Parents who choose not to immunize their children thus endanger other people’s children; this disregard for others’ health is unreasonable, given the lack of benefits of forgoing immunization. It is clear that the word of the scientific community is not enough to convince parents that immunizing their children will prevent—not cause—further problems. The government therefore has a duty to combat this misinformation by spreading verifiable scientific knowledge regarding...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Shot at the Truth | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...blog and book “Stuff White People Like,” has been talking about in his ongoing list about the white middle class. The Somerville Theatre was packed with a decidedly middle-aged Caucasian audience who seemed to be all dressed up, with a notable lack of irony, for #118—Ugly Sweater Parties. Traoré, a bluesy artist from Mali who sings in a combination of French, English and Bambara, took the stage to the quiet, but appreciative audience (a man in row J brought binoculars). Traoré mostly performed songs from her latest...

Author: By Rebecca J. Levitan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Traore a Natural Performer | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

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