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...which got shut out. Charlie Wilson, which comes out Christmas day, is a true-life kinda comedy about a Texas Congressman who funded the Afghan rebels against the invading Soviets in the 1980s. It's a feel-good war-on-terror movie, and it was cited five times. Pointedly, none of the big Iraq movies in a serioso vein - In the Valley of Elah, Lions for Lambs, Rendition, Redacted, The Kingdom - got even one. Hollywood can now go back to not putting its political conscience on screen, secure in the knowledge that neither the audience nor the critics care...
...None of this would have happened, however, without a spark of venture capital. That came from Martin Tobias of Seattle-based firm Ignition Partners. A restless ex-Microsoft executive, Tobias thought software had maxed out, and by 2004 he was looking for the next big thing. He found it in the emerging clean-tech sector - which encompasses renewable energy, environmental efficiency and water - and discovered the struggling start-up Seattle Biodiesel, which had just been launched by a former airline pilot. Tobias injected badly needed capital, eventually buying 20% of the company and becoming CEO of the renamed Imperium Renewables...
...ready to perform and influence people with his music. Koh took that charge seriously, and has performed for audiences all over the world, winning some of his craft’s top prizes and accolades. For one year, he played on a Montagnana cello that he borrowed from none other than Yo-Yo Ma ’76. Ma might have been reluctant to take it back, though: during his freshman year, Koh told the Harvard Independent’s annual sex survey that his greatest fantasy was to have sex with his cello. A native South Korean...
...know, none of us lost anyone in last Wednesday’s violence. I say as far as I know because, after I e-mailed out the list of names Thursday morning, I only heard back from one person. No longer necessary, our little group disbanded again as quickly as it had come together. Nebraska didn’t even make the playoffs this year, so it looks like I’ll have to wait until August to see the group again. But for the time being, at least, Omaha...
...Parent was ranked first in the country for 13 and 14-year-old boys in the 400 IM, a position previously held by none other than six-time Olympic gold medalist, Michael Phelps...