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...ironic that the Pulitzer Prize winner fumbled in this area. Back in 1987, she caught then presidential-hopeful Joe Biden borrowing heavily from a British politician's speech. On the other hand, things worked...
...quarter-century after his debut feature, The Element of Crime, won the Technical Prize at Cannes - and after showing Europa/Zentropa (Jury Prize, or third place) in 1991, Breaking the Waves (Grand Jury Prize, or second place) in 1996, and Dancer in the Dark (finally, the Palme d'Or) in 2000 - von Trier presents his eighth film in the competition. Antichrist is both his most familiar film - a horror film of a soul gone mad, as in Psycho and The Shining - and one of his most transgressive, which is reviewer's jargon for gross-out gruesome...
Harvard Law School graduates Victor H.J. Jih and Tamara “Tammy” T.J. Jih crossed the finish line first on Sunday’s season 14 finale of The Amazing Race to claim the victory and the $1 million prize. Victor and Tammy, siblings who graduated from HLS ten years apart (1996 and 2006 respectively) and are both litigators, traveled 40,000 miles and completed tasks in nine countries over the course of the race, which ended in Maui, Hawaii. They braved eight rounds of elimination, as well as stiff competition from the two other teams...
...swam to her home. Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was charged with violating the terms of her house arrest and moved to prison after John Yettaw was caught swimming away from her lakeside compound on May 5. Suu Kyi, the winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, has been under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years after clashing with the country's brutal ruling junta. The charges against Suu Kyi, who is 63 and reportedly in poor health, come just weeks before the scheduled end of her detention and carry a sentence...
...Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 - news she learned by listening to a BBC radio broadcast. The prize was accepted by her two teenage sons...