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...Today two weeks ago: "If you?re going to go with films that not a lot of people have seen, you might as well go with a host that not a lot of people have seen. You know what? Let?s turn the whole damn thing into the Independent Spirit Awards...
...practically is. Three of the Academy?s five Best Pics - Brokeback, Capote and Good Night - are also up for the top Spirit award tomorrow. If one of those three wins both, it would be just the second time in history (Platoon, in 1987, is so far the one and only). Most of the prime contenders in big categories have taken oodles of critics? prizes, yet attracted fewer paying customers than, say, Spielberg?s other movie of 2005, War of the Worlds...
...procession toward the altar, where the priest marked each person’s forehead with a cross of ashes. By acknowledging every human’s origin and end in ashes and dust, we are moved toward more than a month of fasting and spiritual growth. In the spirit of ecumenism, similar practices are common to different religions and ways of life: Islamic Ramadan, Jewish Yom Kippur, classical Greek Stoicism, Buddhist bodhisattva practices, and the list goes...
...That competitive spirit was put to the test during last fall’s 30-day filming of “The Amazing Race.” The show pits 11 teams of two against one other in a series of scavenger hunt-like challenges that take the contestants to locations all over the world. At the end of the last episode, whichever team arrives to the final location first will...
Still, Jaffe wasn’t sure she didn’t desire a life in academia until she finished writing her dissertation and realized that scholarly constraints did not sit well with a free spirit like herself. For Jaffe, the boiling point came when she was approached by a female professor at the culmination of her thesis...