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...role in The Reader, and the Original Screenplay prize went to the Irish hitman comedy In Bruges. Echoing the sentiments of their American brethren, the British Academy voters also gave Leading Actor kudos to comeback king Mickey Rourke for his role in The Wrestler (his expletive-sprinkled acceptance speech getting some of the night's biggest laughs), honored the late Heath Ledger's turn as The Joker in The Dark Knight with a Supporting Actor award, crowned WALL-E best Animated Film and applauded The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with a few of the less sexy awards for production...
...Kindle also has something billed as an "experimental read-to-me feature" - users will be able to invoke a text-to-speech function, similar to that on most computers, that will turn any text into audio. Audio, that is, read by a synthesized computer voice (male or female, your choice.) While not nearly as natural sounding as, say, Audible books, some users might figure this is better than nothing. (See 25 must-have travel gadgets...
...focus that Faust has repeatedly stressed over the first year and a half of her presidency.The event represented a collaborative effort spanning various sectors of the University, from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Dean of Arts and Humanities to the Office of Career Services.In her speech on Friday evening, Faust announced the actions the University plans to take towards fulfillment of the recommendations made in December by the Task Force on the Arts, a committee that she commissioned in the first months of her presidency.The Task Force’s report called for increased art production...
...were inside his residence, inside his facilities, inside his rooms...We were everywhere these people were." - CIA Director George Tenet in a 2004 speech about Khan and the U.S. government's monitoring of his movements...
...Others contend that the rules attacked freedom of speech. The charge is curious on its face; freedom of speech does not entail state subsidy of speech. But state subsidy of organizations that advocate particular causes can have the appearance of state support. This is exactly one of the problems the Mexico City Policy sought to avoid. The 1994 UN population conference at Cairo asserted the right of all states to determine their own abortion laws; non-intervention in the matter is then surely the safest course for America. But groups like IPPF are actively involved in agitating for changes...