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...movie made in India. Set up by the producers of Salaam Bombay!, the trust looked after the welfare of 27 slum children who were part of Mira Nair's film about Mumbai street kids, which was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 20 years ago. With several thousand dollars raised at the film's premiere, the trust provided the children with an education and a safe place to live, as well as medical treatment and counseling. Says Sanjoy Roy, a founding member: "We also supervised their investments and, till the age of 18, the way they spent their...
...Wells mentions a rumor dating back to the 18th century that the earl once gave Shakespeare a thousand pounds, possibly to allow the Bard to purchase the second largest house in Stratford-on-Avon. That would be an extraordinary amount of money even from a patron who was, as Wells describes him, "very rich and very generous, almost profligate." But if the rumor is true, it might be another sign of the very high regard that the earl had for his favored poet. "This rumor has often been discounted," says Wells. "In one of my own books, I said...
...give the Peggy Sawyers of the world the dream to star in a Broadway show. The chorines might be just specks of dust to Marsh, but as Peggy says: “Put all those specks together, you have something alive and beautiful that can reach out to a thousand people we’ve never seen before.” —Staff writer Ali R. Leskowitz can be reached at aleskow@fas.harvard.edu...
...American troops would be pared down from 14 to 12 brigades by September, reducing the 140,000-strong force by 12,000. President Barack Obama plans to withdraw all combat troops by September next year, leaving a residual force of up to 50,000 support and training troops. Four thousand British troops are also scheduled to pull out in the next few months...
...other less attractive aspect of a very modest increase in hiring is that employers smell blood in the water now. They look at a line of two thousand people at a job fair that might have forty positions available in total and tell themselves that it is too good to be true. But, it isn't. Those PhDs will actually take a job for $10 an hour. It may be the only way that they can survive...