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...Oscar that will stick. He won an Academy Award in 2000 for his documentary on the Munich Olympics, One Day in September, and a bafta four years later for Touching the Void. "Winning a bafta is like winning a literary award," he says. "You're happy, your friends phone you up, and a week later everyone's forgotten about it. But even now, whenever my name appears in any U.S. publication, it's prefaced with 'Oscar-winning documentary maker ? ' In Britain, you get knighted. In the U.S., you get an Oscar. It's a title which you will thenceforth carry...
...problems revealed the system’s greater limitations. “Our student information system is not meeting our expectations—not even close,” he wrote. Many students who could not access their grade reports online also were barred from checking their grades by phone due to privacy concerns, according to the registrar’s office. According to Basin, the Law School also experienced difficulties earlier this semester with online course selection and the new e-mail server. “I went to [the University of Southern California], and we had an electronic...
Reinventing the Phone "The apple of your ear" [Jan. 22] showcased Apple's new iPhone. I remember a time when no one would think of spending a cent on an item that had such a tiny video screen. Remember the television screens in the early '50s? Well, we have come full circle and are right back where we started and don't mind squinting at a tiny screen. On the other hand, ophthalmologists and optometrists are patiently waiting for the bucks to start rolling in when our eyes go bad. Kristi Richter Chicago...
...course brochure, dressed up as a clown complete with whiteface makeup "to differentiate myself from people giving out porn stuff," and handed out the booklets in Grand Central station. Then he raced back to a tiny basement office in a building just off Central Park and waited for the phone to ring...
...carried the frightened, bleeding child to the fire department, where someone took him to the hospital for stitches. The children's friends will not visit the project because they are too afraid. Sitting at her kitchen table, half watching All My Children on the TV, she answers her mobile phone. It's the Tupperware lady, pressing to come by and get $5 Diana owes her. Diana asks, "Do you know where I live?" She repeats the question to the caller and adds, finally, "Cabrini-Green." There is an obvious break in the conversation. "O.K.," says Diana, smiling a little...