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Smith’s first novel, White Teeth, was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ First Book Award...
Hollywood could not have dreamed up a more singular tale. Lynch, a onetime Miss Congeniality winner in the beauty pageant at her county fair, enlisted in the Army out of necessity, to help pay for the college education she needed to become a kindergarten teacher. Her odyssey began on the evening of March 23, when she and 14 other soldiers from her convoy of the 507th Maintenance Company were ambushed on or near Highway 1, a main north-south artery into Baghdad. Though the details of that night and the following days remain hazy, at least five of the soldiers...
...film soars briefly as it reflects on the redemptive power of music and the Szpilman’s commitment to survival; it stumbles badly in its misleading depiction of universally heroic Poles and in its sympathy for an officer of Hitler’s vicious army to the east. Winner of this year’s Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Actor and Best Screenplay. The Pianist screens...
...audience to sympathize with a rapist. The film manages, paradoxically, to be both sloppily edited and deadeningly self-conscious. As it progresses, the audience is slowly but surely ushered into a stupor very closely resembling that of the coma victim at the story’s inane center. Winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Talk to Her screens...
...Under Noonan, Columbia should still be a title contender thanks to Second Team All-Ivy senior pitcher Allison Buehler. Buehler was the workhorse for Columbia in upsetting Dartmouth, Cornell and Harvard in the ECAC championships last year before finally falling to the Crimson in a winner-take-all final. Freshman pitcher Jackie Adelphio provides the complement to Buehler the team has recently lacked. The Lions’ hitting has kept them from being an Ivy contender in the past, but sophomore Marisa Marconi has started to change that with a sterling .422 average thus far. Columbia posted a respectable...