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BEST HOLLYWOOD CITIZEN Ron Howard has made millions for the industry, with films like Splash, Apollo 13 and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, but has never even been nominated for an Oscar. This year, with A Beautiful Mind, Opie finally gets some respect from the Academy: a Best Director nomination. Call it his Lifetime Achievement Award...
Richard's parents divorced when he was 11. He left school at 16, as soon as he legally could. By then he had drifted into the south London world of street crime and car theft. At 17, after mugging a senior citizen, he was jailed for the first time. In the next few years, Richard was in and out of prison, and when he bumped into his father in a shopping mall seven or eight years ago, he seemed depressed and downhearted. "He was born here in Britain, like I was," says Robin. "It was distressing to be told things...
...Oregon State who was one of many U.S. National Guardsmen in attendance in Salt Lake last week; Parra, a Mexican American who had learned to skate on rollers in the streets of San Bernadino, Calif., and Kwan, the star from La La Land, perhaps the country's most famous citizen of Asian descent. The Winter Olympics had never before looked like America, but during this night - this fortnight - they looked just like America...
...president of Canada's Hockey Association, Bob Nicholson, was not satisfied going into these Games. He told the Ottowa Citizen in early February that if European countries didn't close the gap there were real concerns for future of the women's game. "Canada and the United States have put a lot of effort and money into women's hockey," he said. "But each country has to do it. The International Ice Hockey Federation has to see to that. We need Finland, Sweden and Russia. They have improved, but not to the degree we have in North America...
...absurdum arguments aside, we sincerely hope to see the day that homosexuals enjoy the same rights to which every citizen is entitled. What we dislike is the mistaking of an academic discipline for social acceptance. The desire to find “marginalized discourses, perspectives and theories” should be weighed against the cost and importance of their study and against whether this research could be fit coherently into a larger, less exclusionary whole. Why not have a Department of Gender and Sexuality that could deal with all aspects of these topics? Why break down into ever-smaller groups...