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...Because of the age of the University there wasa lot going on here earlier than at other places.You wouldn't find the same strength and depth atother institutions. There is a huge confluence ofresources that has evolved here over time," shesaid...

Author: By Kristen G. Studlien, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Library System Wins NEH Grant | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

Life is Beautiful: This one's all aboutpolitics: Life is Beautiful will never,ever win Best Picture. Why? Because the Academy iswildly and unabashedly xenophobic. They don't evenlike to give awards to British films, and at leastthey're in English! Only once before, in 1969, wasa foreign film nominated for both Best Picture andForeign Film--Costa-Gavras' taut politicalthriller Z. The movie was great but of course tookBest Foreign Film honors rather than Best Picture.Benigni's film, too, is a very good one and willbe duly rewarded in the same manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oscar is Beautiful Saving Private Oscar Thin Red Oscar Oscars in Love Oscar | 3/9/1999 | See Source »

Like the Harvard Union of Clerical andTechnical Workers, the security guards "local" wasa part of the Service Employees InternationalUnion (SEIU...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Security Guards Stuck In Limbo | 3/2/1999 | See Source »

...This was a good, very intense, game and I wasa little nervous about it at the end," Stone said."I've seen these kids get the job done so manytimes, but I keep wondering when will our luck runout...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UNSTOPPABLE! | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...subject andswitched his focus completely. 750 pages went intothe trashcan, and he wrote 800 pages about 35years in the life of a geisha that were declared"dry." Golden then threw out another 750 pages, anact which he called "exhilarating," and then aftera week-long anxiety attack, decided that this wasa story about "a world" and one that needed to betold in the first person. After six weeks ofwriting, Golden developed a voice that mixes thecleverness of a gifted woman with the wide-eyes ofchildhood and emerged with the character of NittaSayuri. He then set her in the detachedenvironment...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, | Title: THE BOOK: MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

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