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...mother died when I was 11. Several years afterward, my father let me stay up late at night to watch movies on TV, and I watched him cry for the first time. He hadn't cried at her funeral, and I suddenly at age 13 or 14 realized the huge power of film, that here was the place that he felt he could express emotions. I vowed right then and there that I wanted to be a filmmaker...
...their blogs, has set up a similar service for the Twittersphere. At a site called Sponsored Tweets, Twitter users can sign in, set the price they want companies to pay them for tweeting an ad on their behalf and wait for the offers to come in. Jocelyn French, the mother of a 2-year-old boy and 1-year-old girl, has tweeted for a parenting website, a college-information site and Kmart, among others, at $1 a pop. "I figure, hey, why not get paid at the same time?" French says. On average, companies are paying Sponsored Tweets users...
...identical twin. I didn't have anything to disclose with her previous novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, because even after numerous attempts I have not yet successfully traveled in time. But Her Fearful Symmetry (Scribner; 406 pages) is about a pair of identical twins, Julia and Valentina, whose mother and aunt, Edwina and Elspeth, are also identical twins...
Women’s Polo Club captain Alexandra “Za” C. Tilt ’10 said that, in keeping with the wishes of Ariel’s mother, the men’s team went through with today’s planned game against Yale, which Harvard...
...website of Hink's group details incident after incident of zero-tolerance absurdities and overreactions, some highlighted in press reports, others submitted by distraught parents who often complain they are not notified by school authorities until the child has been removed from campus. One mother of a young boy who helped a schoolmate set off a fire alarm learned of her son's plight from a text message he sent her: "Mom, I'm in trouble - please come to school." A second text followed: "I'm probably going to jail." She found her son in leg shackles at the juvenile...