Word: queens
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...weeks till Oscar Night, but in three major categories, maybe four, the race is all but officially over. Last night's Golden Globe ceremony certified what earlier critics' prizes have indicated: that Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland will win Best Actor, Helen Mirren in The Queen will take Best Actress and Dreamgirls' Jennifer Hudson is a dead cert for Best Supporting Actress...
...surprise that Hudson's Cadillac-sleek vehicle won the Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy prize; the Las Vegas handicappers had established Dreamgirls at prohibitive one-to-10 odds. That will put it among the five Oscar nominees for Best Picture with The Queen and The Departed. Other possibilities are the indie fave Little Miss Sunshine and the polyglot Babel, which was a surprise winner of the top Globe prize: Best Motion Picture - Drama. But Babel, whose story spans four countries and five languages, was as apt a choice by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which votes for the Globes...
...signed on to a seven-year term as vice-chancellor of Cambridge, the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one with a student body that is more than 5,000 larger than Harvard's. Cambridge's ceremonial chancellorship is held by Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth...
...under contract to serve as vice-chancellor of Cambridge through 2010. (The chancellorship is a ceremonial post held by Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip.) One former colleague suggests that before returning to England in 2003, Richard, who is 58, insisted that her term at Cambridge last seven years, rather than the expected five...
...appliqu?d quilts (kapa kuiki and tifaifai, respectively) overtook tapa in importance, while to the west sewing was incorporated into the making of fine mats, fringed now with wool rather than feathers, turning these traditional markers of weddings, births and funerals into textured tapestries of national genealogy. As Tonga's Queen Salote famously declared, "Our history is written in our mats...