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...years ago, when Kapur left Bollywood for Hollywood, America still struck him as the center of the creative universe. With a virtual monopoly on budgets and technical skill, L.A. was clearly the place to be for a foreign director with a single art-house hit, Bandit Queen. He was an immediate success. In 1998, Kapur directed Blanchett in Elizabeth, about the life of England's 16th century monarch. The movie was nominated for seven Oscars, winning one. Its magic, says Blanchett, lay in Kapur's slightly demented reinvention of period drama. "Elizabeth could have been incredibly musty," she says...
Since the tsunami struck on Dec. 26, student groups around Harvard have organized numerous events and programs to generate money and awareness for victims...
...marble bust stood just a few feet behind the artist. When Miller scrolled Wilson’s notorious quote across the Sanders stage, one could almost see the statuesque Otis shudder. After all, Otis was killed by a bolt from the heavens in 1783; the lightning metaphor might have struck too close to home for the august alum...
Giovanni’s remarks struck a similar chord in Karen M. Hardwick, who said, “What’s extraordinary is that this conference brings together lawyers, law students, professors, judges, and creative geniuses like Dr. Giovanni so that we can support one another and figure out how to best deploy our common assets on behalf of those historically excluded...
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizballah, was so struck by the daily street protests unfolding on the streets of Beirut--full of flag-waving demonstrators demanding Syria's withdrawal from Lebanon and an end to foreign meddling in the country--that he decided to hold a party of his own. He summoned his supporters to Beirut last week for a counterdemonstration, which drew hundreds of thousands of Shi'ites and other pro-Hizballah Lebanese into the capital's Riad al-Solh Square. Addressing the crowd from a balcony above the square, Nasrallah praised Syria, denounced the U.S. and made...