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Certainly the Crimson will miss the Hobey Baker Award candidate, but Mazzoleni is confident that his team is ready to step up to the challenge of playing without...
...chimps made and used tools (most famously, adapting sticks to hunt for termites), electrified the academic world. But now, many books and National Geographic specials later, she is more than a famous naturalist. She has become a scientific saint and the recipient of many honors, including the Gandhi-King Award for Nonviolence, just given to her by the Millennium World Peace Summit...
...ENNOBLED. CONRAD BLACK, 57, with the award of a seat in the British House of Lords; in London. Black is a millionaire newspaper magnate whose holdings include the Daily Telegraph in London and the Jerusalem Post. He chose to renounce his Canadian citizenship because Canada's PM Jean Chr?tien, often criticized in Black's papers, had enforced a rarely used law to block Black's peerage. CHARGED. YASSER AL-SIRI, 38, with conspiring to kill Afghan Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud; in London. Al-Siri, an Egyptian, is accused of providing journalist credentials to suicide bombers who assassinated Massoud...
Silence can be deafening in Tsai Ming-liang's films. The award-winning Taiwanese director will often have a character simply walk through a park, with no dialogue at all. His movies don't explain, they make the audience work for meaning. Though critics sometimes accuse him of pointing a camera at nothing, he clearly knows how to create something from the void. What Time Is It There?, his seventh film, is a visual feast on love, death and loneliness...
Naipaul was no doubt delighted last month to discover the Nobel bladders temporarily empty, when the committee phoned him at his home in England to award him the million-dollar annual prize, “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.” Speculation immediately brewed over whether the citation meant to acclaim the writer’s anti-Muslim travelogues, or his novels and stories, which have dealt with colonial subjects in times of indigence, pathos and humor. Naipaul’s most recent...