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Friday, May 29, 2015
Natalie Portman urges new Harvard graduates to take chances
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Natalie Portman advised graduating Harvard seniors Wednesday to use their inexperience to their advantage, saying she has learned that taking calculated risks can lead to life-changing rewards. The Academy Award-winning actress, speaking at Harvard College’s Class Day, cited her work in “Black Swan” as an example of a time she didn’t know her own limitations — and it paid off. Portman, who won an Oscar for best actress in the 2010 film, said she might not have taken the role if she had known how “woefully unprepared” she was to pull off the movie’s ballet moves. “The point is, if I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk,” she said. “And the risk led to one of my greatest personal and professional achievements.” The 33-year-old actress also met her husband, choreographer Benjamin Millepied, on the set of the movie. Portman, who graduated from Harvard in 2003 and starred in the most recent “Star Wars” movies, also cited another personal example: her first experience writing, directing and acting in a movie. The film, “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
“Make use of the fact that you don’t doubt yourself too much right now because, as we get older, we get more realistic,” she told the graduating seniors. “Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.” Portman’s address was a highlight of Wednesday’s events, which also included award presentations and student speeches. Harvard seniors receive their diplomas Thursday. Harvard’s tradition of inviting a guest speaker to address graduates the day before commencement began in 1968. The first invited guest was civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. His wife, Coretta Scott King, delivered the speech after his assassination. Last year, Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg delivered the address. (ap) Actress Natalie Portman laughs during Harvard College’s Class Day, Wednesday, May 27, 2015, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass.
Lohan avoids jail with 125 hours of community service
LOS ANGELES - Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan avoided jail Wednesday as prosecutors said she has completed more than 100 hours of community service that were required following a reckless driving conviction. Earlier this month a judge warned her she could face prison time if she failed to complete the sentence within three weeks. She had only completed about nine of 125 hours at that time. “I believe she has successfully completed her community service obligation to the court,” said Santa
Monica prosecutor Terry White on Wednesday. Lohan, who has been living in London, carried out the service in New York at a children’s community center. Last week the 28-year-old posted a photo on Instagram of a castlelike play area built at the center using large blue blocks, and wrote: “We built this for the kids today! So cute!!” Lohan was sentenced in 2013 to 240 hours of community service after she drove recklessly and lied to police following a 2012 car accident
in Santa Monica, California. The court also imposed 90 days of drug rehabilitation and 18 months psychiatric counseling during two years of probation. But in February she was given another 125 hours of community service, after a judge questioned whether she fulfilled the terms of the initial sentence. After rocketing to stardom for films “The Parent Trap,” “Freaky Friday” and “Mean Girls,” Lohan has been in and out of rehab with drug problems and has had numerous encounters with the law. (afp)
New official James Bond novel to be called ‘Trigger Mortis’
LONDON — James Bond will be reunited with Pussy Galore in a new novel to be published this year. Anthony Horowitz’s “Trigger Mortis” features the audacious criminal and “Bond girl,” played in the film “Goldfinger” by Honor Blackman. Horowitz follows Sebastian Faulks, Jeffrey Deaver and William Boyd in writing Bond novels authorized by the estate of author Ian Fleming, who died in 1964.
“Trigger Mortis” is based on an idea by Fleming for a TV program that was never made. Horowitz, creator of teenage spy Alex Rider and TV series “Foyle’s War,” said Thursday that “it was always my intention to go back to the true Bond, which is to say, the Bond that Fleming created.” The novel is due in September from Orion in Britain and Harper Collins in the U.S. (ap)
NEW YORK — Like so many other aspiring actresses, Olivia Washington is paying her dues at a small, off-Broadway theater. Unlike so many other aspiring actresses, she’s not relying on her famous dad. Washington, one of Denzel Washington’s four children, played the shy and damaged Laura in a revival of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” in a 199-seat theater this spring. She joined the inaugural season of the Masterworks Theater Company, which has found temporary housing in the 47th Street Theater, a short walk from Broadway’s glitter. The goal of the company is to present theatrical classics with diverse casts to young people. Its motto: igniting the next generation of audiences. “It’s my first show as well as their
first show so we’re definitely growing up together,” said Washington, who graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts two years ago. “Everything has kind of been ‘jump straight into and see what happens.’” Washington, who grew up in Los Angeles, had never seen “The Glass Menagerie” but had studied it in college. Her credits include a stage production of “Clybourne Park” in Ithaca, New York, and she had a small part in the film “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.” Auditioning for more than a year, she said the chance to portray one of Williams’ most interesting heroines was exciting. “Normally, I wouldn’t be able to audition because they don’t really offer it to women of color. So I jumped on it right away,” she said. (ap)
Denzel Washington’s daughter Olivia makes NYC stage debut
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Friday, May 29, 2015
Indians crowd rivers, shady trees as heat toll passes 1,400 Page 6
Arsenal bid to down Villa and become leading FA Cup club Page 8
Dalai Lama urges Aung San Suu Kyi to help Rohingya Muslims Page 13
Reclamation is a threat to Bali
DENPASAR - In addition to mining, another threat faced by Bali today is reclamation projects. One such project is the planned reclamation of 700 hectares in Benoa Bay. The Island of the Gods, is not the only place that will suffer from the negative impact of the Benoa Bay reclamation if it goes through. East Lombok, from where the raw materials of sand and stone will be quarried, will also suffer. This was conveyed by the Special Staff of the Minister of Environment and Forestry, Hanni Adiati, in Denpasar, on Wednesday (May 27). “We ask that the management plan and environmental monitoring plans be reviewed again, not just for Bali but also for the place from where the sand and stone will be quarried -namely; East Lombok,” he explained. Hanni is aware of the investors argument that garbage in the mangrove forest around Benoa Bay has not been properly managed
and that said investor is prepared to handle the waste problem as a benefit of reclaiming the area. According to Hanni however, reclamation is not a suitable solution for handling the garbage in this location. “If I were an environmentalist... it must not be dealt with by way of reclamation. In fact I would like to invite activists in
Bali, while the process is running, to take action together in requesting of large companies operating here that they contribute through their CSR funds. We must resolve the rubbish problem in the mangrove as we continue to handle the erosion,” added the expert staff in the field of NGO network coordination and environmental impact analysis.
Hanni added that environmental activists in Bali must not be caught up the dichotomy of whether to be built or not. On the contrary, they are advised to do something in Benoa Bay such as establish a garbage task force and then ask for CSR funds to help provide boat transportation. Additionally, a waste bank should be created and public awareness about not littering should be promoted. “There are three main actions that need to be taken. One is that ‘upstream’ we reduce the amount of garbage being produced, secondly we need to encourage awareness about the need to cre-
ate waste banks, copouts and so on, and thirdly ‘downstream’, we have no choice but to clean up the waste that is already there by simply renting some boats to transport the garbage that we have amassed. This should all be done intelligently by activists in cooperation with the local government,” he concluded. (kmb32) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.
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In a Sunday Jan. 13, 2013 file photo, actor Denzel Washington, right, and his daughter Olivia Washington arrive at the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
In addition to mining, another threat faced by Bali today is reclamation projects. One such project is the planned reclamation of 700 hectares in Benoa Bay.
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