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...success of The Proposal is a victory both for women filmmakers (director Anne Fletcher, who also did the Katherine Heigl hit 27 Dresses) and for actresses of a certain age, say, over 30. Bullock, who still looks great, gets started on her biggest hit a month before her 45th birthday. That's not girl power - it's almost grandma gold...
...would ever describe Dolly Parton as demure. With her sky-high hairdos, long red nails, memorable curves and naughty sense of humor, Parton is a textbook case of bodaciousness. After receiving an honorary doctorate last month at the University of Tennessee, Dolly exclaimed, "Just think, I am Dr. Dolly. When people say something about 'double D,' they will be talking of something entirely different!" But behind the scenes, Parton has quietly, without fanfare, been giving back big-time through her charitable activities. Her Imagination Library gives free books to children in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. - to the tune...
...this year, the micropayments submarket will grow by an even more robust 40% to 50%. That's partly because customers seem to prefer not being locked into playing just one or two online games by stiff up-front charges and subscriptions. And, freed from paying a set fee each month, some players actually end up spending more. Four years ago, Shanda Interactive Entertainment, China's biggest online-game developer, ditched subscriptions for the freemium model and turned around its sagging fortunes. Kristian Segerstrale, CEO of London-based social-gaming site Playfish, says micropayments work because online games aren...
Overshadowing the Pope's declaration, however, was the news that earlier in the week Father Alberto Cutie - the Miami-based priest and television personality who left the Catholic church last month amid soap opera-worthy scandal - had married his girlfriend of two years. Also making waves was the publication of former Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland's memoir detailing his life as a closeted gay man within the church and the loneliness that drove him to pursue a sexual relationship with another man. Weakland, who stepped down seven years ago when he turned 75, the age when priests typically submit letters...
Joining a recent trend of schools endorsing open access scholarship, faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education voted overwhelmingly earlier this month to make their scholarly articles available to the public free of charge. Under the new policy, faculty articles will now be circulated through the online Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard repository now being developed by the Office for Scholarly Communication. Though currently in testing stages and available only within the University, the database is expected to opened to the general public by late summer or early fall. Faculty members will have the option of blocking public...