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...short years ago - let's call them the Little Miss Sunshine years - things were looking up in the world of independent films. New titles debuted at Sundance and walked away with multimillion dollar theatrical deals. But as the number of films flooding the art house circuit spiked, audiences have sagged and theaters themselves have become more scarce. Declining box office receipts have resulted in a subdued festival marketplace, where lucrative acquisitions seem to be a thing of the past. For every art-house blockbuster like Juno (which took in $229 million globally) or big-ticket festival purchase like Hamlet...
...Canada A Win for Harper Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative Party prevailed in Oct. 14 elections, earning a broader mandate amid economic turmoil but falling short of the outright majority Harper had sought by calling the vote. In the nation's third elections in four years, the Conservatives captured at least 143--up from 127--of 308 House of Commons seats, while its primary opposition, the Liberal Party, notched just...
...chronicler of American lives, a former Incredible (the voice behind Violet's bangs) and the author of The Wordy Shipmates, out this month, which finds the quirk in America's Puritan heritage. Here's what's on Vowell's short list this fall...
...week is comparable to an entire punch process crammed into five short days. “It’s like hell week,” says Ebele M. Anidi ’12. Many groups hold their auditions until one or two in the morning...
...wasn’t softened, and the huge increases now required mean that many schools which have had solid records of improving test scores over the past six years have been put on probation and are threatened with losing funding if they continue to fall short of these unreasonable standards. Worse, the law affects each state differently and punishes those with rigorous exams. In a nod to states’ rights, the law was written to allow each state to set its own testing standards. As a result, states with relatively easy proficiency tests, such as Wisconsin or Mississippi...