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...last years of her life, her mother remembers, author Iris Chang wanted to make a movie. Chang's 1997 best seller, The Rape of Nanking, had shone a spotlight on an infamous 1937 atrocity. This was the massacre of an estimated 260,000 people, and the rape of as many as 20,000 women, by Japanese troops occupying Nanjing (formerly Nanking), then the Chinese capital. The book spent 10 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and made the 29-year-old a literary star. But Chang wanted to do more. "She firmly believed that a movie...
...Host Sarah Silverman began by reminding the audience of the event's significance in the film world: "If a bomb went off here," the comic said, "There would be no one left to make a documentary about it." A lot of Santa Monica, Calif., sun shone down on the dysfunctional family comedy Little Miss Sunshine, which won Best Feature, Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin - who's also nominated for an Oscar - Best Director for the husband-and-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and best first screenplay for Michael Arndt...
...time we get a chance to play them we know we have to play our best hockey.” Harvard had little trouble dispatching the Brown Bears on the first go around, winning handily by a score of 8-1 in Providence. In that game, Jenny Brine again shone, netting four goals and adding an assist for the Crimson. The Bears, who are led by junior forward Hayley Moore, who leads the team in points, and freshman forward Andrea Hunter, got off to a rocky start this season, dropping their first nine contests. Recently, however, they have won five...
DIED. Ruthanna Boris, 88, wry dancer-choreographer who in the '40s became the first American ballerina to earn top billing with the vaunted Ballet Russe; in El Cerrito, Calif. Famous for her versatility--she shone equally in Swan Lake and Frankie and Johnny--she directed pieces like 1947's Cirque de Deux, a spoof that likened ballet dancers to circus performers...
...said they also have enough evidence to charge Chen, although he is protected by presidential immunity while in office.) But in subsequent weeks Chen's supporters rallied to his side, defeating a recall motion in the legislature that would have triggered a national referendum on his ouster. They also shone the spotlight on his biggest rival, outgoing Taipei Mayor and KMT chairman Ma Ying-jeou, a likely 2008 presidential candidate. Following demands for an investigation by DPP lawmakers, Ma was forced to admit to bookkeeping problems regarding his mayoral expense account, and was questioned by prosecutors about official funds that...