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...After eight years of Bush and our standing in the world so badly damaged, there's no other constituency that so understands that," says Carolyn Sauvage-Mar, who chairs Democrats Abroad in India. Whatever their personal politics, the 6 million Americans living abroad have found themselves at the sharp end of growing international opposition to U.S. foreign policy...
...said of her swims. “Now [my injury] is pretty much healed just have to practice a bit and in three weeks, I should be back to my regular times.”Harvard will compete at the Ivy League Championships from Feb. 29 through Mar. 2 in Princeton, N.J. The Crimson will look to improve upon its second-place finish to the Tigers at last year’s championship. —Staff writer Rebecca A. Compton can be reached at compton@fas.harvard.edu...
Though the late actor had taken on other roles since, it was his Oscar-nominated performance as Ennis Del Mar, a sheep rancher who discovers his homosexuality in Brokeback Mountain, that mourners referred to again and again. His death was particularly poignant to gay New Yorkers. "He is a gay icon," says John Lopez, 22, who works in a gourmet food store that Ledger frequented. "To support us, he broke a lot of taboos." From overseas, the film's director Ang Lee said in a statement, "He brought to the role of Ennis more than any of us could have...
...trying to walk the line between what the studios wanted him to be (a romantic hero such as those he played in 10 Things I Hate About You and A Knight's Tale, his first two big hits) and the more renegade figures he was drawn to (Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain, the iconic Australia outlaw in Ned Kelly or the junkie in Candy). "I wanted to scrub it all away," he said of his early forays into stardom, "and start again, to see what my abilities are, if there are any." He was hard on himself...
...shut up?' JUAN CARLOS I, King of Spain, to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, after Chávez called former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar a "fascist" during a summit in Chile...