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Most actresses wait their whole career for a breakout role. And 24-year-old Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan knows it. Hers was Jenny, the lead character in the Lone Scherfig film An Education, which was adapted from the Lynn Barber memoir about a teenager who falls head over heels for a charming but flawed man. Mulligan's portrayal of a young woman who blooms with love only to wilt upon discovering its complexities has captured the hearts of critics and Oscar voters and has established her as one of the front runners going into the ceremony on March 7. TIME...
Washington has always been bad in the eyes of Texas, but more so nowadays than ever. And so the Lone Star State's governor, Rick Perry, wrapped up his bid for the GOP gubernatorial nomination with an ad that played several times on the final night of the Olympics just to make that point. In front of a large Texas flag, he opened with the simple statement: "Washington is broken." And exhibit No. 1 of how bad Washington had become in his eyes? Fellow Texan Kay Bailey Hutchison, the senior U.S. Senator who was once the prohibitive favorite to succeed...
...award start-up capital for winning teams to bring their ideas to fruition. With the disaster in Haiti drawing much of the world’s attention, the inaugural edition might solicit ideas to maximize the efficiency of airplanes landing and taking off from Haiti’s lone airstrip. Challenges would be specific, yet varied, such as how to maximize the efficiency of doctors arriving and departing from Port-Au-Prince or create a more portable and cost-effective way to purify drinking water in sub-Saharan Africa. If the answer to a challenge is not found, however, HarvardforHumanity...
...illuminated white line bisects the endless black of the Boston University Theatre’s Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley Studio 210. Simple and stark, this white line is the lone scenic element in the Boston Center for American Performance’s minimalist production of Paula Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive”—yet, any further set would have been needless in this superbly acted, provocative memory play, which runs through...
...lone field goal came with 11:22 remaining in the contest. With Lin holding the ball on the right wing, co-captain Doug Miller set a screen to the right of Lin’s defender. Lin jabbed left, then went right and finished with a layup