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...generation British director, a British screenwriter and British backers - yet was considered insufficiently British, since it was shot in India with Indian actors speaking Hindi. "I'm appalled," says The Warrior producer Bertrand Faivre. "The Academy is just ignorant about how the world is changing." The U.K. instead submitted Welsh-language Eldra - though at least twice as many people in the U.K. speak Hindi as speak Welsh...
...Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit heard oral arguments in the case, Hosty v. Carter. Illinois Assistant Attorney General Mary E. Welsh, on behalf of GSU, made the extraordinary claim that the first amendment rights of college students are no greater than those of high school students, whose freedoms had been truncated a decade and a half earlier...
Almost exactly fifteen years after the Supreme Court ruled in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier that high school newspapers could be censored by school districts, Welsh sought to further chip away at the scholastic press by challenging a more difficult target—college journalism...
Zellweger stars as Roxie Hart--a doe-eyed jazz-age babe who goes on trial for killing her extramarital lover and becomes a media darling in the process. And, yes, she can sing--and so can her unlikely co-stars. Catherine Zeta-Jones' sultry Welsh purr masks a singing voice that is pure Broadway belt, and the moment she opens her mouth with the familiar first song, All That Jazz, the movie takes flight. Richard Gere seems more awake than he has in years as Billy Flynn, the slick lawyer who in one number plays puppet master to a chorus...
With the first round of drinks behind them, the seniors formed teams of three to play an FM personal-trivia game. Everyone in attendance left with some very valuable and often nautical-themed life lessons, not the least of which were that the Welsh word for Wales is “cymru” and male blue whales have an average penis length of 2m. Rampant cheating on the part of all parties involved prevented a clear determination of the game’s winners...