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...before he got into movies. Born in Sunrise, Minn., he got the theater bug at Illinois' Lake Forest College and stayed on to teach acting. From 1943 to 1946 he appeared in five Broadway plays, none lasting as long as four months, before coming to Hollywood. Director Henry Hathaway thought the actor too clean-cut to play Udo, but Darryl Zanuck, the boss of 20th Century-Fox, detected psychological turbulence beneath Widmark's stark, chiseled features, and the role was his, for life. It earned him the sobriquet "the face of film noir" and his only Oscar nomination...
...state high schools are "inadequate." A 2007 report by the OECD found that class sizes in British high schools are among the largest of 30 Western countries. NUT members have resolved to launch a campaign to push for smaller classes amid reports that teachers are struggling to teach as many as 55 pupils at one time. Average class sizes in the state sector are 26.2 compared to 10.7 in fee-paying schools. A report by the Sutton Trust, an educational charity, found that children from poorer homes who were given scholarships to fee-paying schools dramatically outperformed their peers...
...players in the league and probably one of the best players in the country,” MacDonald said. “The fact that he embraces the big game atmosphere and steps up to the whole new level, that’s something you can’t teach. He’s putting the team on his back, and it’s great to watch and be a part of.”When Harvard needed to break out of its mid-season slump, Taylor and Richter provided spark. Now that the Harvard must play mistake-free...
...pattern, but it should galvanize women to pay more attention to the time they spend in bed. "I don't think we have to wait 20, 30 or 40 years to start intervention," says Dr. Phyllis Zee, director of the sleep-disorders center at Northwestern University. "Just as we teach patients to eat well and exercise for their health, we should be telling them to sleep well." In other words, for women, a good night's rest is far more than just beauty sleep...
Sarafa, who is half-Iraqi and half-Palestinian, said he speaks only "kitchen Arabic," since his parents chose not to teach him the language for fear that he would not learn English well...