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...foreign language films, but our stories are the same as your stories. They’re about the human heart and emotion,? director Gavin Hood said Sunday in his acceptance speech for his cinematic creation “Tsotsi,”? this year’s Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film Hood, who both wrote and directed “Tsotsi,”? communicates this vast power of ?human heart and emotion? through a hardened man’s single experience with an innocent child. During the film’s hour...
...with New Delhi is vital to U.S. and European interests, as India stands as a hub of democracy in a region whose political landscape is tainted by Chinese communism and Islamic authoritarianism. For these reasons, leaders with diverse international outlooks, from Jacques Chirac of France to Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammed El Baradei of International Atomic Energy Agency, are lining up in support of Bush’s proposal, acknowledging that the non-proliferation regime’s embrace of India is critical to the future of the international economy and global stability...
Harvard does indeed have a high degree of flexibility, especially in contrast to Georgetown University, the other winner of Alwaleed’s grant. Georgetown, which is affiliated with the Jesuit order, plans to put the $20 million toward its existing Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding...
...Bush Administration has dodged another electoral bullet south of the border, but only by the narrowest of margins. Nobel Peace laureate Oscar Arias was finally declared the winner of Costa Rica?s presidential election on Tuesday-ending a tense, month-long manual vote recount that almost put another anti-U.S. leftist in power in Latin America, this time in one of the region?s most traditionally stable and U.S.-friendly nations...
...heart, a warm space cordoned off for sentimentality and success. Other prizes, an army of identical plastic men posing victoriously atop them, are predictably forgotten just days after their acquisition.Then there are those awards that carry an almost onerous importance. Their weight engraves a permanent appositive for their winner, no matter what happens to him thereafter.In the Ivy League, Lance Salsgiver—“Number one high school baseball player in the state of Michigan” (Detroit Free Press), “first-team high school All-American” (Baseball America)—might...