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...yardstick by which Hollywood measures success, he couldn't produce: his films were rarely moneyspinners. And now he was in the middle of making a small, relatively low-budget film filled with little-known actors that has absolutely no appeal to ticket-buying, popcorn-munching 18-to-24-year-old males - and it's not even showing in cinemas, instead going straight to TV. Could it possibly be a hit? "I've given up thinking about results," Minghella told TIME recently. "It's just all about the process. As long as I'm working with good people and we enjoy...
...avail as Harvard hung on and added to its lead. With 5:15 left to play, Rogers’ high-velocity shot at the goal from the right side was deflected to a waiting Taylor, who punched the puck into the net. The score secured the win and a ticket to the ECAC semifinals against Cornell to be held at the Times Union Center in Albany, N.Y. next Friday. “I think after the stretch we went through in December and January I don’t think a lot of people would have predicted, one, we?...
...Harvard women’s hockey team’s 5-1 victory over Dartmouth Saturday afternoon didn’t just punch the Crimson’s ticket to the NCAA Frozen Four.It also marked a huge milestone for Harvard head coach Katey Stone, who became just the third Division 1 women’s hockey coach to record 300 career victories with the quarterfinal win.But in typical Stone fashion, the coach downplayed the personal significance of the victory, directing attention to her team’s accomplishments.“It’s done...
...Rhode Island threw his weight behind Clinton and Missouri's Claire McCaskill is supporting Obama. But Senators have the luxury of six-year terms whereas the House members go back to the polls in eight months, and whoever is facing off John McCain at the top of the Democratic ticket could have a major impact on their own races - a concern many freshmen have voiced about Clinton behind closed doors. Democrats won control of Congress in 2006 on the backs of the freshmen, and their swing districts are crucial must-wins for any presidential candidate on either side...
...Reagan Era—still the cause of some mourning in America—viewers of major news programs were treated to the reappearance of 72-year-old Geraldine Ferraro, former congresswoman and the second barrel on the souped-up Daisy Air Rifle that was the 1984 Mondale presidential ticket. Ferraro was defending her claims made in that bastion of political reporting, Torrance, Calif.’s “The Daily Breeze,” that Barack Obama’s political success is tied in some way to the fact that he’s black, which...