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...spread Nutella. Valentino Castellani, who shepherded through the city's successful bid during his eight-year stint as mayor, and is now head of Torino's Olympic Organizing Committee, wants those who associate la dolce vita only with Rome to learn "we're Italian too. We have that same passion and joy for life." Yet though city fathers want the Olympics to show off Torino, most Italians, even the Piemontesi, focus their athletic attention on a certain sport played on flat fields. "In Italy, if it isn't called soccer, it's hard to get a lot of people interested...
...Family trees have been a lifelong passion for Gates, who is also director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research...
...would be fine by me, but the race seems to be between Hoffman and Ledger. Hoffman's Capote is a stunt, a caricature, the kind Oscar often rewards, but it's also a great performance. Ledger, his character's emotions so internalized he's nearly made mute by his passion and guilt, would dominate any other year. But in the leading actor categories, I have to go with the Huffman-Hoffman ticket...
...Harper era's success may depend on Harper's ability to muster the passion and conviction to sell his vision of Canada's future to an electorate that gave him a mixed-message mandate. That's a tall order for an intensely private man who once hated even the thought of public life and who still lends himself to easy caricature. He allowed photographers to follow him as he walked his two children--Benjamin, 9, and Rachel, 7--to school near the opposition leader's house at Stornoway, only to attract titters from Canadian sophisticates at the pictures...
...Merely by hitting the top ten, the film has made a point. But unlike The Passion or Narnia, it may remain a modest success that encourages evangelicals in their ever-expanding missionary efforts without necessarily attracting non-believers into the fold, or for that matter, into the theaters. Perry notes that her local newspaper panned the film (reviews in major papers tended toward the unimpressed). Did she think it would play beyond the evangelical community? ?I hate to say it,? she says, ?but it might not appeal so much to a wider audience. One of the people at Starbucks...