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...absolutely deserving ... Not because she's a woman and not because she's a woman who makes stereotypically 'guy' movies, but because The Hurt Locker was a damn good movie and she was the primary reason it worked ... The fact that it took 82 years for the Academy to give the Best Director award to a female filmmaker should be cause for shame and embarrassment, rather than self-lionizing accolades." --3/8/10
...choose a new parliament despite election-day violence that killed 38. U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated Iraqis for voting "with enthusiasm and optimism." But running elections is one thing; running Iraq is another. The general election of 2005 empowered ethnic and sectarian leaders who proved incapable of compromise and took the country to the brink of civil war. The surge of U.S. troops in 2007 bought just enough security and time to give democracy one more shot. Superficially, Iraqi politicians appear to have learned the lesson. The major parties have joined broad "national unity" coalitions. But the leadership...
Given the widespread dissatisfaction among faculty, administrators, and students, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds took steps to address the root of their complaints—the rigidity of the Ad Board’s process for handling cases of academic dishonesty...
Against Charlotte this past weekend, the Harvard baseball team (3-10) was the ball. The 49ers (11-5) scored more runs in each of the first two games than the Crimson was able to score all weekend, as Charlotte took three straight victories in Charlotte...
...after Way left the mound after the fifth, sophomore Will Keuper took the ball and found that the Charlotte batters had a few runs left in them. Keuper allowed two runs in his lone inning of work...