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...animation, Ratatouille won the award outright in Washington and from the National Board of Review. Boston gave the Pixar film a screenplay award, which rarely goes to a cartoon. But in L.A. it shared the L.A. prize with Persepolis, the biographic cartoon from the Iranian exile Marjane Satrapi. And the New York critics rebuffed Ratatouille - and The Simpsons Movie and Bee Movie and Beowulfand other ani-movies people have actually seen - with a first-ballot vote for Persepolis. An art-house film beat out movies that have already grossed nearly $1.5 billion dollars (or about 47 euros) worldwide...
...number of Jewish students at Harvard—then 21 percent of the student body. In a letter published in the New York Times, Lowell—for whom the House is named—maintained that it would benefit the University and help reduce anti-Semitic sentiment. When outright quotas raised objections, he changed the admissions criteria to include photographs of applicants as well as “an estimate of personal character.” Over the course of his tenure, the number of Jewish students declined to 10 percent...
...easy layup after easy layup—that was Gansey’s favorite move. Or to see Drew Housman and Jeremy Lin confidently work the ball around the Wolverines’ zone D waiting for the open look.Thanks to Amaker, Beilein had the size and speed, the outright skill, at his disposal to beat Harvard. But he didn’t exploit that fully because he’s trying to teach a system to a very young Michigan squad that he thinks will work in the long term. And he’ll recruit players that suit that...
...Eleven months into the investigation, the complaint says, one of the defendants began to suspect Omar. Serdar Tatar, a legal resident from Turkey who worked at a 7-Eleven store and knew the Dukas and Shnewer from high school, asked Omar outright if he was a "fed." Three days later, Tatar contacted a Philadelphia police sergeant to report that someone was pressuring him to acquire maps of Fort Dix - and that he was afraid it might be terrorism-related. (Tatar's father owned a pizzeria and had a map of the base and clearance to deliver there.) The sergeant called...
...been very little focus on a second potential casualty: the U.S. plan to base ground-based missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic. The plan to station interceptor missiles in Poland and tracking radars in the Czech Republic is regarded warily by citizens of those countries, and with outright hostility by the Russians who see it as aimed at blunting their own missile capability in the event of a showdown with the U.S. The plan has helped freeze U.S.-Russia ties to Cold War levels of enmity, with President Vladimir Putin just last week suspending Russia's participation...