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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As American society continues to divide along political lines, higher education and educators have unique potential to help foster interpartisan friendships, according to a new study from North Carolina State University. The findings are based on data from the Interfaith Diversity Experiences and Attitudes…

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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNatalie Portman has recalled having an “amazing” chat with Jodie Foster about being sexualised as child stars.Portman, now 42, was only 12 when she landed her first feature film credit in the 1994 action-thriller Léon the Professional. Meanwhile, Foster, now 61, was 14 when she landed her first Oscar nomination for her role as a teenage prostitute in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi…

A child observing the flowers on the tree with binoculars in the school garden. Credit: Kong Chuwei Children's interest in nature is crucial for their understanding and appreciation of the natural environment, as well as for their mental health and efforts to biodiversity conservation. The primary school stage is very important for developing an interest in nature. It is worth exploring whether a school garden with abundant…

Acclaimed actress-filmmaker Jodie Foster finds it is "cool" that there`s been 47 years between her first Oscar nomination for `Taxi Driver` and her most recent for `Nyad`. The 61-year-old actress was recently shortlisted for the Best Actress in a Supporting Role accolade for her work on `Nyad,` an biographical sports drama film about swimmer Diana Nyad`s multiple attempts in the early 2010s to swim the Straits of Florida, with flashbacks to her early life. Jodie, whose first nomination was for `Taxi Driver` in 1976,…

The tears started before the rookie coach said his first word. They flowed again only 35 seconds into his opening remarks.“Being the head coach here at UCLA,” DeShaun Foster said Tuesday morning, trying to hold it together, “you guys have no idea, just …”Foster paused in a losing battle to compose himself, his gentle sobbing drowned out by the roaring applause from a few hundred donors, family members, players and alumni inside Pauley Pavilion’s pavilion club.From star running back on UCLA’s last team to play in a Rose…

The football drama at UCLA took a wild turn Monday when a desperate Martin Jarmond threw a Hail Mary pass through a torrential downpour.He just hired a head coach who is not a head coach.He just entrusted the Bruins to a guy who has never called a play, never run a practice, never commanded the sidelines, never dominated a meeting room and never bossed more than a handful of players at one time.Welcome home, DeShaun Foster.Now what exactly are you doing here?The former Bruins running back and running backs coach was…

UCLA went with a familiar, beloved name in selecting the football coach to lead it into a new era. The Bruins hired DeShaun Foster.The former star running back for the school who appeared in its last Rose Bowl game will replace Chip Kelly, the school announced Monday after completing a warp-speed search that lasted less than 72 hours and included 11 interviews and correspondence with more than 20 potential candidates.While galvanizing a large swath of the fanbase, not to mention current players loyal to Foster as the…

By ANDREW DALTON | AP Entertainment Writer Christian Bale broke ground Wednesday on a project he’s been pursuing for 16 years — the building of a dozen homes and a community center in Palmdale intended to keep siblings in foster care together. The Oscar winner stood with a grin and a shovel full of dirt alongside local politicians and donors in the decidedly non-Hollywood city of Palmdale, 60 miles north and across the San Gabriel Mountains from Los Angeles. But Bale, who was Batman in director Christopher Nolan ‘s “Dark…