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...Arta Dobroshi didn't waste time pondering the tragedies she had witnessed. Instead, she threw herself into acting. She took roles in the local theater and Albanian movies, and finally caught the attention of the Dardenne brothers, whose movies Rosetta (1999) and L'Enfant (2005) had already each won a Palme d'Or at Cannes. They invited her to an audition for the lead for The Silence of Lorna. And if a war couldn't stop Dobroshi from pursuing her acting career, the fact that the only French she knew was the days of the week wouldn't stop...
...Roman Catholic, Sebelius supports abortion rights, a position for which she was assailed by a local archbishop and asked not to take communion...
...Paul Harvey Aurandt was born in Tulsa, Okla., in 1918; his father was shot and killed by robbers when Paul was 3. As a kid, he built a radio set to receive distant magic signals, and in high school, a teacher nudged him into a radio booth at local station KVOO. Jobs in Salina, Kans., Oklahoma City and Honolulu followed just before Pearl Harbor brought him to Chicago in 1944. He stayed there, hosting a Jobs for G.I. Joe program, adding his signature phrase "the rest of the story" the following year. He got his own show, on WENR, with...
Yesterday the Undergraduate Council voted unanimously to approve TKTS, a program through which the UC will raffle off free tickets every week to campus and local events. Last week the UC ran a trial run of the program and raffled off 32 tickets to both Cultural Rhythms and the Black Students Association’s Renaissance Ball. Nearly 200 students applied for tickets, according to Kia J. McLeod ’10, UC vice-president. “I feel like we are finding alternative ways to help social life without doing what we used to do in the past...
...year-old Sister Anoopa Mary had been found hanging in her room in St. Mary's Convent in Kollam, north of the capital. In what was purportedly her suicide note, she had said she could no longer withstand the senior nuns' harassment. Her father, a cook in the local bishop's house, charged that sexual exploitation had led his daughter to take her life. The convent has denied the allegations, though a court investigation is still ongoing...