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...stars with 13 Oscar nominations between them paired up for an R-rated crime drama. The actors, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, and the movie, Heat, received a glitzy, year-end push from a major studio and breathless media coverage. The New York Times likened Pa-Niro's six minutes of shared screen time to "Ben Hur sitting down and acting with Spartacus...
...emphasized that its endowment growth has been used to increase financial aid, one of Grassley’s oft-cited goals in criticizing low endowment spending rates. For example, the press release accompanying Harvard’s investment returns today mentions “financial aid” six times in its first five paragraphs. Grassley has recently toned down his legislative threats as schools have posted lower returns amidst a market downturn. Earlier this week, Grassley spokeswoman Jill Gerber said endowment performance in tough market conditions would be a key factor in determining whether the senator would push legislation...
...crime spree prompted a similar lockdown in Hartford, Conn. After a chain of shootings that left one 21-year-old dead, a 15-month-old shot in the left leg and six young people wounded, the city in August imposed a 30-day emergency curfew on everyone under the age of 18. Mayor Eddie Perez said in a statement: "We must do this because we cannot and will not tolerate innocent people, especially children, to be victims...
...same stone-faced duo had shown up about an hour before sunset on each of the six days that Liu had been working on his unlikely rendering of Naples' notorious garbage. They said nothing and showed no interest in talking with the artist or any of his eight assistants, but stayed long enough to look everything and everyone over - and to be sure they were noticed. They were performing a ritual familiar in the troubled neighborhoods of southern Italy, scouting for local mob bosses and asserting control over the "territorio...
...event, the greatest danger to Liu and his crew came not from local mafiosi, but from the canker sores, rashes, flu and other maladies resulting from spending six hours a day working amid rotting garbage. With the Mt. Vesuvius volcano looming in the background, Liu titled the work, Shang Huo (Festering Heat). And the vitality of the image, he says, derives from it being created amid the stench of its subject matter...