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...HFPA top-loaded its lists with end-of-year product - nine of the 12 films released in November or December, including three that haven't opened yet. But the Globers did acknowledge that the people who watch awards shows also go to movies. Two slots were filled by popular films that have grossed about $120 million domestic: American Gangster, nominated in the Best Drama category, and Hairspray, one of the five finalists for Best Comedy or Musical. Atonement, Juno and the all-star Charlie Wilson's War could becomes hits as they open wide this month and next...
...chemotherapy (followed by a stem-cell transplant to rebuild the immune system) after surgery does not extend the life of breast-cancer patients. The new findings, which come after a thorough analysis of 15 trials involving 6,200 patients, should close the book on a controversial treatment that was popular during the 1980s and 1990s. At the time, doctors believed that more was better when it came to chemotherapy following cancer surgery: While it was painful for patients, oncologists thought ramping up chemo would ultimately benefit patients by destroying any cancer cells that had eluded the surgeon's knife...
Getting diagnosed with cancer is difficult enough, but choosing the right treatment from the bewildering array of options can be just as challenging. For breast cancer patients, that decision just got a little less complicated, with a new study showing that a once-popular therapy doesn't provide any additional survival benefit...
...president of the Spee Club. He’s one of a handful of Harvard students to get an offer from J.P. Morgan. He’s New York born and bred, and many in his class consider him to be one of the most well-dressed, popular, and talked about people at school. But if you ask Nicholas T. Brown ’08 what he thinks of all this, he considers himself to be somewhat of an “enigma.” “I was with Natasha Alford,” Brown says...
...Hwang ’08, despite boasting a one-two punch of Harvard’s most popular concentrations—government, with a secondary field in economics—is a campus figure without parallel. Every Harvard class has its ultra-popular John F. Kennedy ’40 and its budding mogul Steven A. Ballmer ’77, but a man who tapes a giant poster of an eye in his Canaday common room window and threatens passersby via bullhorn with pseudo-totalitarian sayings is in a league...