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...Audiences will get to see the fruits of that process on Easter weekend, when the BBC/HBO-produced No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency airs in the U.K. It could pull in the largest British audience for a Minghella film in a long while. But Minghella will never know. The screenwriter and filmmaker died from a hemorrhage on March...
...says Senor, who is currently writing a book about the Middle East. “Even our biggest critics inside Iraq don’t want us to leave, and so there’s nothing to me so short-sighted or maddening than the notion that we should pull...
...While it is unlikely that the Crimson will pull off all three upsets over the ranked teams, any combination of multiple wins would be an impressive improvement over last season and good showing for potential selection into the NCAA tournament in May. And the feat is far from impossible...
...Crimson fell behind by as many as 18 points before mounting a furious comeback in the closing minutes that came up short. Down 58-40 with 6:48 remaining in the second half, Harvard exploded for a 16-2 run over the next five minutes to pull Harvard within four at 60-56 with 1:04 left. Junior guard Emily Tay sparked the run with eight points, including a pair of three-pointers, and Hallion added a pair of jumpers. Dartmouth, which shot a blistering 68 percent from the field in the first half, mustered an abysmal...
...massive political demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, which were brutally put down by Chinese military troops. But the issue, at bottom, was the same: how to respond? And here, China may well understand that 1989 was a long time ago. Beijing in those days could literally pull the plug on CNN and Dan Rather and then thumb its nose at the rest of the world. "It couldn't do that today even if it wanted to, and I don't think it does," the senior diplomat says...