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...last-ditch effort to persuade last-minute voters, Republicans in South Florida have resorted to robo-calls in which they describe former Cuban President Fidel Castro as supporting Barack Obama for President. "The calls began this past weekend," says Kendall Coffey, former U.S. Attorney in Miami and a staunch Democrat. The calls quoted Cuba's official newspaper, Granma, when referencing Castro's support, Coffey says. "The robo-calls started three or four days ago. I haven't heard them, but my friends in the Cuban-American community have. They are targeting Democrats and Republicans based on age, because older Cubans...
...rediscover and celebrate these old, forgotten film reels lying in dusty corners of attics and basements. Created by the Center for Home Movies, Home Movie Day is an international event observed in 50 cities worldwide. Now in its sixth year, the event was first brought to Harvard by Elizabeth Coffey, Film Conservator at the HFA, whose involvement in the National Organization of Film Archivists led her to befriend the founders of Home Movie Day. “Part of the event is to educate people on the films’ value. They should be shown in public because they...
...more rounded than today's. It was footy pre-corporate box, pre-media saturation, and in its honor Nable penned a script - his first - that is nostalgic yet so gritty you can almost feel the sting of a painkilling needle. He took the script to a friend, businessman Anthony Coffey, who with Nable and director Andrews formed The Three Scallywags, a production company that would turn Nable's words into Winter, which opens Sept. 6 in Australia and later in the year in New Zealand...
...enough about them,” junior Ryan Maki says. “Jack, obviously, he’s physical, his size—he’s a presence back there. “[McCafferty] is on the power play and looks like Paul Coffey back there,” Maki added, referencing the offensively explosive Hall of Fame blueliner. And after proving they can play with the big boys, Christian and McCafferty experienced as freshmen what many skaters never get: the thrill of an ECAC title, secured with last weekend’s 6-2 victory over Cornell...
...quirky characters and vivid details and sexy twists and pleasing, rounded endings they're used to in fiction. To get those effects in nonfiction, writers sometimes cut corners--the factual kind. "If you want to have something that can be sold as based on a true story," Coffey says, "you're going to run into guys like James Frey who are embellishing with techniques that are considered a gift in fiction writing but apparently a sin in a memoir...