Volume 87, Issue 19
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
STARS SHINE WITH STYLE A look into the style and fashion of those who attended the 81st Academy Awards.
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Goalie Kicks Back with Recovery By CELINA NATOLA EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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WEST HAVEN—When goalie James Hilaire stepped onto the soccer field at Merrimack College one day in September, the thought never crossed his mind that he would be leaving the game in a helicopter. The senior Criminal Justice major from Haiti sufATHLETES OF THE WEEK fered a critical head injury Athletes of the Week will be an- on Wednesday, Sept. 24, nounced every other week in the 2008 when a Merrimack Charger Bulletin and on the Charplayer accidentally broke gers website. – Page 10 his jaw. The player’s knee slammed into Hilaire’s jaw DON’T BE ONE IN FOUR PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDREW BEARDSLEY as they both raced toward a vein to pop in Hilaire’s an eight-day coma. Five The One in Four event, presented the ball. The impact caused brain, putting him into months later, Hilaire is still by the Victimology Club, the Multicultural Office, and SCOPE, was a success last Wednesday.
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INDEX Arts & Entertainment Pages 8 and 11 Bulletin Board
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Community & Advice Page 9 Editorials
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Police Log/ Fun & Games Pages 12 and 13 National/World News Page 3 New Haven News Page 4 Sports
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struggling to put together the pieces. “Everything’s coming back little by little,” he said, “I remember the game though. I remember the first half but not the second half.” Memory loss seems trivial when compared to the list of side effects doctors expected Hilaire to experience-if he even survived in the first place. “Two doctors at the first hospital said ‘no way he’s going to make it,’” Hilaire said. Coming out of his coma and getting back on his feet, Hilaire’s recovery has been nothing short of a miracle. See MIRACLE page 4
Slumdog Rules Oscars with Eight Prizes
By DAVID GERMAIN ASSOCIATED PRESS
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LOS ANGELES—Slumdog Millionaire took the best-picture Academy Award and seven other Oscars on Sunday, including director for Danny Boyle, whose ghetto-to-glory story paralleled the film's unlikely rise to Hollywood's summit. The other top winners: Kate Winslet, best actress for the Holocaust-themed drama The Reader; Sean Penn, best actor for the title role of Milk; Heath Ledger, supporting actor for The Dark Knight; and Penelope Cruz, supporting actress for Vicky Cristina Barcelona. A story of hope amid squalor in Mumbai, India, Slumdog Millionaire came in with 10 nominations, its eight wins including
adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing and both music Oscars (score and song). "Just to say to Mumbai, all of you who helped us make the film and all of those of you who didn't, thank you very much. You dwarf even this guy," Boyle said, holding up his directing Oscar. The filmmakers accepted the best-picture trophy surrounded by both the adult professional actors who appeared among the cast of relative unknowns and some of the children Boyle cast from the slums of Mumbai. The film follows the travails and triumphs of Jamal, an orphan who artfully dodges a criminal gang that mutilates children to make them more pitiable beggars. Jamal witnesses his mother's violent death,
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Director Danny Boyle, facing camera,right, hugs Freida Pinto as they celebrate after the film Slumdog Millionaire won best motion picture of the year.
endures police torture and childhood. struggles with betrayal by Fate rewards Jamal, his brother, while single- whose story unfolds mindedly hoping to reunite See MOVIES page 8 with the lost love of his