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...prize, the Oscars represented a victory for the little guy - sometimes a victory for the little little guy over the big little guy. Sony Pictures Classics has long toiled in the shadow of savvy Miramax Films, the ingenuity of whose Oscar campaigns is notorious. But last night SPC copped five awards (four for "Crouching Tiger" and Harden's statuette), while Miramax went Oscarless for the first time in 13 years. So no big Miramax party on Oscar night. No Harvey Weinstein gags. Miramax had to be content with laughing all the way to the bank: its giddily sleazy low-budget...
TUZLA AIR BASE, BOSNIA: An American soldier was shot and wounded in the left shoulder early today by an intruder at a base in the U.S.-controlled sector of northern Bosnia. A spokesman for the NATO-led peace force said Spc. Shawn Austin is in stable condition. Austin was patrolling the base with one other soldier when they saw the intruder and opened fire. "He challenged the intruder, who in turn fired a shot, which hit the soldier in the left shoulder," Lt. Col. Chuck Merlo said. He did not know what kind of weapon the intruder was carrying...
When he left for Mogadishu last December, Army SPC Glenn Follett imagined he would be going there as part of a salvation army: soldiers distributing food to starving children. Instead, he spent much of his four-month tour of duty fighting scorpions and ducking fire from the gunmen of local warlords. "In the first two weeks I was in Somalia, I saw more combat than during six months in Saudi ((Arabia))," says Follett, a recently discharged Gulf War veteran who is now back in Watertown, New York. "As soon as we stepped off the plane, we were getting shot...
...ease, rather than self-improvement or showiness, when it comes to the private act of actually turning the pages. Hence, a formula that indicates what percentage of books sold are really read. The Fully Read Index , (FRI) equals the Author Comfort Index (ACI) times the Simple Prose Coefficient (SPC...
Hawking, with an ACI of 1 and an SPC of 3, gets an FRI of 3; of every 100 people who bought A Brief History of Time, three finished it. Rushdie (ACI 1 X SPC 2) weighs in at a solid 2%. In the middle range, John le Carre has a fairly high ACI (8), thanks to his 25 years of best-sellerdom, along with a demanding style ameliorated somewhat by the propulsions of suspense (SPC 6). His FRI of 48% means that of the 530,280 copies of The Russia House sold, 254,534.4 consumers finished...