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Unlike many upstart teams which are driven by one superstar and a lot of average-to-bad role players, the Harvard women’s Nordic team has ample competition...
Omara Portuondo is a Cuban music and film superstar whose career has spanned over 60 years. The U.S. leg of her “Gracias” tour, which will make a stop at Sanders Theater on February 26, will mark the first time that a Cuban performer has been granted a visa to perform in the United States since 2003. Born in 1930 to a wealthy Spanish mother and a black, pro-athlete father during a time when mixed-race marriages were forbidden, she blossomed into a gifted singer and dancer, going on to perform with the well-known...
...towns, where the explosion of satellite television, with its constant diet of ads and Bollywood, has fueled the hairstyling market. "In Delhi, people will just come to my salon asking for a cut that suits them," he says. "In Aligarh, they'll come asking to look like [Bollywood superstar] Shah Rukh Khan." The approach chimes with the findings of The Dhoni Effect, a 2008 report from consultants Ernst & Young. Named after Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, a small-town boy made great, the report found that India's provincial consumers were increasing in importance, thanks to growing aspirations...
...HAVEN, Conn.—When superstar Jeremy Lin fouled out with 1:15 remaining in regulation, Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker didn’t hesitate. He sent in rookie Dee Giger, who had played a total of two minutes on the night to that point...
...film with no singing, no dancing and a not-so-happy ending. And in last year's hit Billu, the shifting balance of artistic power wrought by Khan is on full display. Khan plays the eponymous barber whose world is upended when his childhood friend, a Bollywood superstar, comes to town. That star is played by none other than Shah Rukh Khan, who, in essence, is gently caricaturing his own persona. Irrfan is all praise for his co-star, who he says was "very sincere" in his acceptance and handling of the supporting role. "He wanted the film...