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...Hills hotel, Coppola explains the crisis of confidence that immobilized him, and his career pivot from John Grisham to a Romanian mythologist. In 2004 the director was much like Matei before the lightning struck; he was frustrated and grappling with a consuming project he couldn't complete. He'd spent most of the '80s and '90s making forgettable films like The Cotton Club and Jack to pay off the enormous debts he had incurred on such experiments as his 1982 musical, One from the Heart. Though there were bright spots, like The Outsiders and Peggy Sue Got Married, most...
...same statement with his play. While Taylor is by no means short on advice for his teammates, his authority stems not from his words, but from his work—the smart play and grind-it-out effort he has put into every minute he’s spent on the ice in three years at Harvard...
...Dartmouth, last season’s ECAC champion, represented a family connection for McDonald—her uncles Bob and Steve Arndt and her cousin Jaime Arndt all spent their college hockey careers with the Big Green...
...government's unique system of Inspectors General - an elite but underappreciated slice of the federal civil service - is arguably the best-spent taxpayer money in Washington. At their best, these quasi-independent ombudsmen save the country billions, many multiples of what it costs to employ close to 12,000 staff in 64 IG offices, while doing their best to ensure the efficient and impartial functioning of their respective agencies...
...Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNHCR), an independent body set up by an act of Parliament, says it has evidence that almost 500 suspects were shot and their bodies dumped during the past five months. Researchers have spent three months collecting the data from mortuaries as relatives came forward claiming that their loved ones had disappeared. A police spokesman dismissed the allegations as nothing more than "rumors." However, Maina Kiai, director of the KNHCR, said police had yet to explain how hundreds of bodies had been delivered by police vehicle to mortuaries, yet the force had denied any involvement...