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...accepted practice in the Indian film industry and named several prominent actors and directors who had slept their way to or through the top. The brouhaha only increased days later when India TV showed another hidden-camera recording, this time featuring the host of the Indian version of talent show American Idol, Aman Verma. At his home in Bombay, Verma beckoned to the same reporter to sit next to him, telling her that he'd always been a "naughty...
...counterparts in Australia are hoping Africa will become a new source of talent for their clubs. Seven years ago, Mtutuzeli Hlomela, then 17, won a football scholarship through the South Australian and Western Cape sports ministries. Until he got to the interview, "I thought it was a soccer scholarship," says Hlomela, who managed to talk his way into the position based on his vague memory of a couple of snippets of games he'd seen on television. Hlomela proved to be a natural and played for the Sturt Football Club under-19s in the South Australian Football League...
...other transported by the music) in the sketches for Picasso's monumental Pipes of Pan. When Bacon arrived in Paris at age 18 - after his father caught him in his mother's underwear and threw him out - he was certain of his homosexuality, but less certain of his artistic talent. He flirted with interior design when he returned to London in 1929 and, once he started painting, destroyed most of his early efforts. One work that survives is a 1933 Crucifixion, which was reproduced that same year in Art Now, a book on contemporary art; on the facing page, tellingly...
...Boston] club scene isn’t really geared to nurturing talent,” says Nidle. “There isn’t really [another] listening room. The environment we have is concentrated—it’s almost too formal for a lot of people, you’re not socializing, you’re not drinking, you’re not getting stoned...
It’s not that this is a priori a bad idea. At best, divisional committees would add another layer to the Faculty’s talent scouting that will seek and promote deserving academics that departments, for whatever reason, overlooked. A less rosy, but still positive, scenario is that this will just add a few more sets of eyes to Harvard’s tenure process, leading to a wider pool of professors from which departments can make appointments. After all, even the most able faculty on departmental hiring committees will miss someone now and then. More bureaucracy...