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...Politics will make this category faascinating. Sophie Scholl, a very good film on a safe subject (the German student who defied Hitler's Reich and died for her bravery), is up against Paradise Now, a very good film on an incendiary subject (a Palestinian suicide bomber). Three years ago, the exemplary satire Divine Intervention was denied a Foreign Film nomination because Palestine, whence the film originated, was deemed "not a country." That rule was changed, and there's a distinct possibility that on Oscar night the winner will be "from the Palestinian Authority." Can Hamas' election victory scuttle a movie...
...that's changing, thanks largely to specialists such as Bergman and Shipon-Blum. Trained as an osteopathic family physician, Shipon-Blum had a pressing personal interest in the condition. Finding almost no good research on the subject, she had to resort to trial and error in order to help her daughter Sophie, now 11, overcome a paralyzing mutism. Today Shipon-Blum runs an SM clinic with a two-year waiting list and travels the U.S. speaking in hotel ballrooms packed with concerned parents, teachers and clinicians. She also founded the nonprofit Selective Mutism Group--Childhood Anxiety Network, which has become...
...Roussel family, says bluntly: "The foundation has clearly slammed the door on Athina. There's still hope, though, that she can pry it wide open." Perhaps. Documents obtained by Time, including copies of the Onassis will and its revised terms, stipulate that, while the foundation's charter may be subject to alterations, the specific terms imposed by Christina shall "not be amended." This includes the clause about the hereditary presidency of the foundation, but Papadimitriou is undaunted. "I don't think Ms. Roussel is automatically eligible for the presidency," he says. "The clause needs interpretation. It speaks about capacity...
Summers has long argued that educating girls in the thirld world should be a top priority. In August 1992, he wrote a paper on the subject entitled, "The Most Influential Investment," for Scientific American...
...remarks touched on a controversial subject for Summers, who came under fire one year ago after he suggested that "issues of intrinsic aptitude" could help explain the scarcity of females in the sciences. He has since committed $50 million over the next decade to address the issue at Harvard...