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19 highly successful people who prove it's never too late to change careers

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Questions about whether you're on the "right" career path can strike fear into even the most confident person's heart.

But as some of the most successful people prove, you don't have to have it all figured out from the start.

Plenty of highly successful people chose to make major career changes, some even many years into their lives.

Here are 19 examples that it's never too late to change paths:

 

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Julia Child worked in advertising, media, and secret intelligence before writing her first cookbook when she was 50, launching her career as a celebrity chef in 1961.



John Glenn is best known for becoming the first American astronaut to orbit Earth in 1962. But 12 years later, at 53 years old, he became a US senator in Ohio, a role he held for 24 years. He did return to space in 1998, on a nine-day mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery.



Terry Crews has received numerous accolades for his comedy work on award-winning shows "Everybody Hates Chris" and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine." But no one was laughing when they got tackled by Crews during his four-season stint as a defensive player for various NFL teams in the mid-90s.



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'Confirmation,' HBO's new Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill drama, is powerfully relevant today

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HBO's "Confirmation" doesn't totally overcome the creative shortcomings that are common with biopics. But what it does very effectively is go behind the pageantry of the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings.

"Confirmation" stars "Scandal's" Kerry Washington, who also served as an executive producer, as law professor Anita Hill as she is pulled from her life of academia to testifying in the 1991 confirmation hearings of Thomas, who was nominated to the US Supreme Court by George H.W. Bush. Hill claimed that while working as Thomas' assistant at two government agencies, he sexually harassed her on several occasions.

As Thomas, Wendell Pierce tries to capture the nominee's initial wide-eyed awe — he had only been a judge for 16 months before Bush announced his nomination to the Supreme Court. But when positioned to defend himself in front of the nation against Hill's accusations, he delivered a speech in which he dropped a game-changing verbal assault, comparing the proceedings to a "high-tech lynching."

"Confirmation" leans toward Hill, taking us past her strong, almost stoic testimony broadcast around the nation all those years ago. She didn't even want to testify. Then-Senator Joe Biden — whose inept command of the hearings is played convincingly by Greg Kinnear — issued a subpoena to force her to appear. From there, the movie chronicles how Hill's power is taken from her. She goes from telling her sordid story to having sordid stories told about her.

Bill Irwin, Wendell Pierce confirmation hboDirected by Rick Famuyiwa ("Dope," "Brown Sugar"), "Confirmation" dramatizes a truly American event with race, gender, media, law, and politics crossing all at once. Though set in the early '90s, its themes feel absolutely current as the parties fight it out to fill the seat opened recently by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. And as Hillary Clinton strides once again for the presidency, while simultaneously managing sexist comments about what she's wearing or how much she should smile. Or as women are still fighting for a work environment that doesn't punish them for having a family and pays them equally to men.

Kerry Washington's producing hand is most felt during the behind-the-scenes action, which feels very reminiscent of the style of her ABC drama "Scandal." It even includes a portrayal of Judy Smith (Kristen Ariza), the political fixer who inspired "Scandal," who was Bush's deputy press secretary at the time. Yes, she was part of the team against Hill.

Dylan Baker Greg Kinnear Treat Williamconfirmation hbo 1One team consisted of Biden and Ted Kennedy's (Treat Williams) young female staffers (played by Meryl Streep's daughter Grace Gummer and Zoe Lister-Jones) and Hill's attorneys against the full might of the GOP and the Bush White House. The stakes were high. There's no telling what a person could do to women's rights from the bench if they were a misogynist. The battle sheds light on politicians and what they'll do to keep their power.

This theme is best exemplified in an early (and very entertaining) scene just after Hill's accusations became known and days away from Thomas' Supreme Court nomination vote. A group of congresswomen storm the male senators' private lunch to lecture them on failing to investigate Hill's claims. Colorado Congresswoman Pat Schroeder sums up their behavior perfectly: "So much power, so little leadership."

Don't come to "Confirmation' looking for a great movie. It's a good movie with a great look at the character of those who represent us.

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 "Confirmation" premieres Saturday, April 16 at 8 p.m. on HBO.

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A Paris auction will feature some of the world's most valuable comics

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The value of an item, the adage goes, is never less than what someone is willing to pay for it.

And for rare comic books, that value is skyrocketing.

At a sale at French auction house Artcurial on April 30, comics — especially those written by the famous Belgian cartoonist Hergé — will receive attention and prices rivaling those usually reserved for fine art.

"The world of comic strips has recently witnessed a renewed enthusiasm," said Eric Leroy, an expert in comics at Artcurial.

"Collectors come from all backgrounds; some of them have previously been collecting contemporary and modern art and appreciate the graphical and historical side of collecting comic strips," Leroy said.

Artcurial set up a dedicated comic strip division in 2005, responding to a rapidly expanding market and a growing need for in-house expertise to identify, authenticate, and curate some of the most desirable comics in the world.

"Quality works are getting harder and harder to find, but some aspects of comics are always important: the rarity, the album it originates from, whether the hero is depicted, the talent of the artist and the condition of the work," Leroy said.

The auction this month will include items from the personal collection of French pop singer Renaud. It heavily features the work of Hergé, creator of "The Adventures of Tintin," a series of graphic novels depicting the worldwide escapades of a young Belgian reporter.

The series has to date sold well over 200 million copies in more than 70 languages, and remains in wide circulation.

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At the top of the docket is a rare double-plate from the "Tintin" comic "King Ottokar's Sceptre," estimated by the house to sell for between $650,000 and $865,000.



A similar, double page from a different episode sold for an astonishing $1.5 million last year, doubling its presale estimate, the BBC reported.

Hergé, who died in 1983, is certainly one of the most important names in the European comic-book tradition.

"Hergé had a career spanning 40 years with a formidable output," Leroy said. "Many generations have grown up reading 'The Adventures of Tintin.'"

The devoted attention Hergé paid to European cultures, as well as those of the many places to which Tintin traveled, made the series a veritable record of the twentieth century.

In the 23 completed works, Tintin trekked in the Himalayas, witnessed Native Americans evicted by the United States Army, saw Japanese soldiers occupy Manchuria, and even walked on the moon.

While the "Tintin" comics have revived only a limited following in the US, the series was developed into a 2011 Hollywood feature film by Steven Spielberg, an avid fan of the books.



Unlike the European tradition, in North America comics have always favored an array of superheroes.

"Actually, US comic books are not really very different from European comics," Leroy said. Even if the subjects may differ.

In fact, comic strips were born in North American newspapers in the 19th century, only later migrating across the Atlantic.

Today, early American comics, especially those that feature the genesis of some of the most famous superheroes, attract similar prices to their European counterparts.

"In a way, comics are timeless and, moreover, universal," Leroy said.



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18 Hollywood moms whose lookalike daughters are following in their footsteps

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While actresses Goldie Hawn and Melanie Griffith already have daughters following in their footsteps, there's a new crop of kiddie talent entering Hollywood thanks to their famous parents.

Story by Aly Weisman and editing by Chelsea Pineda

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'Hamilton' tickets sell for more than $2,000 — here's how much money Broadway's hottest musical is raking in

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"Hamilton" is the most coveted Broadway show right now and tickets have been sold out months in advance.

The musical — created and composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda — features a multiracial cast rapping and singing the story of Alexander Hamilton, a founding father and America's first secretary of the treasury. 

It took six years for the musical to come together, but since it has, there is no stopping it now.

"Hamilton" won a Grammy earlier this year for best musical theater album and the cast performed at the White House for an education initiative. With an album that has reached gold status, a mixtape set for release later this year, and a recently released behind-the-scenes book (April 12), "Hamilton" is everywhere, even if you aren't one of the lucky ones able to secure (or afford) the exclusive tickets. 

Celebrities and politicians, including Kerry Washington, Amy Schumer, and the Obamas, have been gushing about the show, and many have seen it more than once. Even presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders made time to see the musical while campaigning in New York City in April.

Here's what you should know about the hottest musical on Broadway and how much money it's raking in:

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Created and composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the musical is based on "Hamilton," a biography about Alexander Hamilton written by Ron Chernow.



Miranda read the entire biography while on vacation in Mexico in 2008, but he discussed the idea for a hip-hop musical based on Hamilton's life with Jeremy Carter, a former theater critic, a week before he even went on vacation.

Source: "Hamilton: The Revolution"



In 2009, Miranda performed a rough version of the first song that would eventually open the musical at the White House.

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How that insane chariot race in the new 'Ben-Hur' was shot with almost no CGI

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In March, Paramount released the first trailer for its summer blockbuster, “Ben-Hur,” a remake of the Charlton Heston Oscar-winning classic, which follows the journey of a Jewish prince, named Judah Ben-Hur, who is betrayed, sent into slavery, and then seeks vengeance.

Like the Heston movie, the latest adaptation of the Lew Wallace novel, out August 19, hinges on a thrilling chariot race in which Ben-Hur (played in the latest film by Jack Huston) battles the person who betrayed him.

Based on what you see in the trailer, you'd probably assume the race was shot in a Los Angeles soundstage with full green screen.

But the film's director Timur Bekmambetov (“Wanted,” “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”) revealed to Business Insider that much of the sequence was done without computer graphics.

“Those are real horses, real actors driving real chariots on the track,” Bekmambetov told Business Insider. “That’s 42 horses driving neck-and-neck.”

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According to Bekmambetov, the sequence, which lasts 10 minutes in the movie, took 45 days to shoot on location in Italy.

“It was a very intense experience,” said Bekmambetov, who noted that the actors spent over three months training for the chariot race, which includes 90 horses on a 1,000-foot-long set.

That's not to say CGI is entirely absent from the sequence.

Many of the wide shots of the crowd were enhanced with computer graphics, and there's a shot in the trailer of a horse that gallops into the crowd — done with, yes, CGI magic.

But Bekmambetov said the "goal was to do as much in-camera as possible." 

ben hur 1 copyThe lack of computer graphics in the sequence was something Bekmambetov pushed for. And the inspiration for it came from a project he produced, “Hardcore Henry.” 

The unique action movie, currently in theaters, feels like a video game, with a point of view that comes entirely from a man who's trying to save his wife from a warlord.

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“You really feel you’re in that chariot driving it,” Bekmambetov said of the “Ben-Hur” scene.

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Disney has 6 'Star Wars' movies planned through 2020 — here they all are

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The first new "Star Wars" in 10 years, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," launched a franchise reboot in 2015, which will consist of six films total through 2020.

"The Force Awakens" takes place 30 years after the events of 1983's "Return of the Jedi." The First Order has risen from the fallen Empire and the Resistance is fighting back. Featuring a group of characters from the original trilogy alongside a new team of young Rebels, "The Force Awakens" is the first in a trilogy. 

In addition to that series, three stand-alone spin-off films make up the Anthology series. "Rogue One," the first, will hit theaters December 16, 2016, and has a new trailer. A Han Solo origin film and Boba Fett film will round out the series for now.

Here's what you can expect in the next four years: 

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"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" smashed box-office records, taking only 12 days to gross $1 billion and only 20 to become the highest-grossing domestic film. The film has successfully rebooted the "Star Wars" franchise and set high expectations for the Disney-produced films to follow.

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The next film, "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," jump-starts the anthology series.



The stand-alone film takes place before the events of the 1977 original film and follows Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and a group of Rebel fighters on a mission to steal plans for the Death Star.



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The 50 richest people on earth

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The wealthiest 50 people in the world control a staggering portion of the world economy: $1.46 trillion — more than the annual GDP of Australia, Spain, or Mexico.

That's according to new data provided to Business Insider by Wealth-X, which conducts research on the super-wealthy. Wealth-X maintains a database of dossiers on more than 110,000 ultra-high-net-worth people, using a proprietary valuation model that takes into account each person's assets, then adjusts estimated net worth to account for currency-exchange rates, local taxes, savings rates, investment performance, and other factors.

Its latest ranking of the world's billionaires found that 29 of the top 50 hail from the US and nearly a quarter made their fortunes in tech. To crack this list, you'd need to have a net worth of at least $14.3 billion. And for the most part these people weren't born with a silver spoon. More than two-thirds are completely self-made, having built some of the world's most powerful companies, including Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Google, Nike, and Oracle.

From tech moguls and retail giants to heirs and heiresses, here are the billionaires with the deepest pockets around the globe.

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49. TIE: Aliko Dangote

Net worth:$14.3 billion

Age: 58

Country: Nigeria

Industry: Diversified investments

Source of wealth: Self-made; Dangote Group

At 20, Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote borrowed money from his uncle to start a business that dealt in commodities trading, cement, and building materials. He quickly expanded to import cars during the country's economic boom. Four years later, in 1981, he formed Dangote Group, an international conglomerate that now holds diversified interests that include food and beverages, plastics manufacturing, real estate, logistics, telecommunications, steel, oil, and gas. At $14.3 billion, Dangote's fortune is the largest in Africa and equal to 2.5% of Nigeria's GDP.

The majority of Dangote's wealth stems from his stake in Dangote Cement, which is publicly traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. He owns cement plants in Zambia, Senegal, Tanzania, and South Africa, and in 2011 invested $4 billion to build a facility on the Ivory Coast. Dangote bought back a majority stake in Dangote Flour Mills — which had grown unprofitable after he sold a large stake to South African food company Tiger Brands three years ago for $190 million — in December for just $1. He is also chairman of The Dangote Foundation, which focuses on education and health initiatives, including a $12,000-per-day feeding program.



49. TIE: James Simons

Net worth:$14.3 billion

Age: 77

Country: US

Industry: Hedge funds

Source of wealth: Self-made; Renaissance Technologies

Before revolutionizing the hedge fund industry with his mathematics-based approach, "Quant King" James Simons worked as a code breaker for the US Department of Defense during the Vietnam War, but was fired after criticizing the war in the press. He chaired the math department at Stony Brook University for a decade until leaving in 1978 to start a quantitative-trading firm. That firm, now called Renaissance Technologies, has more than $65 billion in assets under management among its many funds.

Simons has always dreamed big. About 10 years ago, he announced that he was starting a fund that he claimed would be able to handle $100 billion, about 10% of all assets managed by hedge funds at the time. That fund, Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund, never quite reached his aspirations — it currently handles about $10.5 billion— but his flagship Medallion fund is among the best-performing ever: It has generated a nearly 80% annualized return before fees since its inception in 1988.

In October, Renaissance shut down a $1 billion fund — one of its smaller ones — "due to a lack of investor interest." The firm's other funds, however, have been up and climbing. Simons retired in 2009, but remains chairman of the company.



47. TIE: Laurene Powell Jobs

Net worth:$14.4 billion

Age: 52

Country: US

Industry: Media

Source of wealth: Inheritance; Disney

The widow of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs inherited his wealth and assets, which included 5.5 million shares of Apple stock and a 7.3% stake in The Walt Disney Co., upon his death. Jobs' stake in Disney — which has nearly tripled in value since her husband's death in 2011 and comprises more than $12 billion of her net worth — makes her the company's largest individual shareholder.

Though she's best recognized through her iconic husband, Jobs has had a career of her own. She worked on Wall Street for Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs before earning her MBA at Stanford in 1991, after which she married her late husband and started organic-foods company Terravera. But she's been primarily preoccupied with philanthropic ventures, with a particular focus on education. In 1997, she founded College Track, an after-school program that helps low-income students prepare for and enroll in college, and in September she committed $50 million to a new project called XQ: The Super School Project, which aims to revamp the high-school curriculum and experience.

Last October, Jobs spoke out against "Steve Jobs," Aaron Sorkin's movie about her late husband that portrays him in a harsh light, calling it "fiction." Jobs had been against the project from the get-go, reportedly calling Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale to ask them to decline roles in the film.



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Here's what 'Game of Thrones' stars look like in real life

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The "Game of Thrones" stars can look very different when they're not in their costumes and makeup for the hit fantasy drama.

The show's cast turned out for HBO's premiere screening for "Game of Thrones" season six in Los Angeles recently, which gave fans a chance to see the actors dressed to the nines.

Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sophie Turner, and Maisie Williams were in attendance.

Sadly, Kit Harington, whose character, Jon Snow, has been the center of much fan discussion, wasn't there.

Nevertheless, here's the "Game of Thrones" cast as they look in real life:

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John Bradley-West plays Samwell Tarly on "Game of Thrones."



Here's West all cleaned up at the premiere.



Hannah Murray plays Samwell's life partner, Gilly.



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George Clooney's neighbor threw a party for Bernie Sanders' supporters as Hillary Clinton arrived for a Hollywood fundraiser

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Oscar-winning actor George Clooney hosted a couple of pricey fundraising events for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign on Friday and Saturday.

The events — one in San Francisco, the other in the Hollywood area — have stirred up some criticism for their high-dollar entry prices, which specified that a couple raise and contribute a reported $353,400.

Near the Clooney/Clinton soirée in Studio City on Saturday, Clooney's neighbor threw a competing fundraiser for Clinton's Democratic presidential primary rival, Bernie Sanders, The Hill reported.

While the Clinton fundraiser was reportedly attended by Hollywood influencers like film exec Jeffrey Katzenberg and director Steven Spielberg, the Sanders event cost $27 per person and was more or less open to the public.

The invite for the so-called "99% Party" indicated that no one would be kept out "for lack of funds." It was hosted by Howard Gold, the man whose family established the 99 Cents Only franchise.

Here's the invite that was sent to Sanders' supporters:

"Swimming pools, Movie stars and merriment for all," the invite read. The so-called Clooney Counterparty drew a sizable crowd:

Some of the Sanders supporters apparently threw $1 bills at Clinton's motorcade:

While in Los Angeles Saturday, Clinton also visited a local community college, the LA Times reported.

The Democratic primary frontrunner's ties to deep-pocketed supporters have often opened her up to criticism from Sanders throughout primary season.

The senator from Vermont has zeroed in on those apparent connections to draw parallels to what he calls a troubled campaign finance system, and to question Clinton's integrity.

Sanders often points to his campaign's comparatively smaller donations as he campaigns against the influence of big money in politics.

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12 of the most impressive students at Harvard right now

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Counting household names like Sheryl Sandberg, Barack Obama, and Natalie Portman among its celebrated alumni, Harvard consistently remains one of the top colleges in the country.

But while the school continues to churn out impressive graduates, current students hold their own as well.

We tracked down 12 of Harvard's most remarkable undergraduates who go above and beyond, from developing new techniques for 3-D printing prosthetics to becoming an officer in the US Marines to promoting social activism through music.

Read on to meet 12 of the most impressive students at Harvard right now:

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Alex Yang designed a way to 3-D print customized prosthetics for under $5.

Class of 2017

Hometown: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Major: Biomedical engineering

When Alex Yang gets frustrated, he doesn't just forget about it and move on — he finds a way to change things. One of Yang's biggest frustrations was the egregious cost of medical devices and prosthetics, especially in developing countries, which led him to develop an affordable method of manufacturing and fitting prosthetics for amputees.

Yang's method allows doctors to use any camera — including mobile phones — to capture about 100 photos of an amputee's residual limb, which are then stitched together to create a model. His software builds a socket that fits the limb, which can be 3-D printed in only a few hours for about $5 worth of materials.

Last summer, Yang took his design to Cambodia, which has the highest incidence of amputees per capita because of land mines, where he worked in a clinic fitting patients with prosthetics.

"To put things into perspective, it was taking clinicians in Cambodia several weeks to make a poorly fitting prosthetic," he says.

Yang also wants to make affordable technology available in classrooms. He won the 2015 Deutsche Bank Challenge for Klay, a low-cost education platform launched in Peru where children learn basic quantitative, deductive reasoning, and STEM skills through Play-Doh "games."

Yang's still got another year of school ahead of him, but after Harvard he hopes to commercialize some of the medical devices he's designed. Beyond that, he plans to earn a combined MD/MBA and put it to use redesigning medical technology.



Carolyn Pushaw will be an officer for the US Marines.

Class of 2016

Hometown: Malibu, California

Major: Human evolutionary biology

Carolyn Pushaw not only challenges herself academically at Harvard, but as a newly minted US Marine, she knows how to push herself physically and mentally as well.

Pushaw started in the US Navy ROTC her freshman year, but after observing the motivation and camaraderie of the Marines during a summer training session, she knew she wanted to switch. After years of early-morning workouts, late nights in the field, and weekends spent training — in addition to keeping up with a full course load — Pushaw got the chance to complete Officer Candidates School last summer. Described as "more demanding than any [training] you've experienced before," it prepares its graduates to enter the Marines as officers.

When she's not studying or training, Pushaw works as an EMT-Basic with CrimsonEMS, a volunteer group. She also participated in Harvard College in Asia, a cultural exchange program in which she hosted a Thai student at Harvard for a week and then spent a week in Bangkok.

Upon graduation in May, Pushaw will be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marines. She'll spend six months at The Basic School for officer training, followed by up to two years of flight school in Florida before serving as a Marine for at least six years.

"I am really looking forward to having the opportunity to serve my country and hopefully make a positive difference in the lives of the Marines I will lead," she says.



Harriet Kariuki provides Kenyan children with the supplies they need to succeed in school.

Class of 2016

Hometown:Kerugoya, Kenya

Major: Government

Growing up in Kenya, Harriet Kariuki had never even heard of Harvard before she applied. Neither of her parents went to high school, and she faced a choice: to work on the family tea farm or finish her education.

Kariuki chose the latter. But she never forgot the effort it took to get her there, including siphoning ink from a friend's pen so she could finish her schoolwork when she ran out of supplies. Her experiences inspired her to start Pens4Dreams alongside her roommate, Viona Shina Leboo. An outgrowth of her photography business, Kariuki Photography, Pens4Dreams provides school supplies to students in need in over 300 primary schools in Kenya. All the proceeds she earns from her photography go toward the initiative as well.

"These pens are not just pens but a source of motivation and something they can hold on to every time they lose hope in their pursuit to achieve their dreams," she says.

Harvard also sparked Kariuki's interest in language and travel. She currently speaks five languages — Korean, Japanese, Swahili, Kikuyu, and English — and has studied abroad in Japan, Korea, and China.

After graduation, Kariuki will head back to China to pursue a master's in public policy and international relations at Peking University through the Yenching fellowship, with a focus on Sino-African relations. In the long term, she eventually wants to return to Kenya and change it for the better.



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'SNL' staged a 'Seinfeld' reunion to parody the feisty Brooklyn Democratic debate

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"Seinfeld" character Elaine Benes would probably vote for Hillary Clinton.

That's what we learned when "Seinfeld" star Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the hit show's creator, Larry David, reunited on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" this weekend.

While David returned with his Bernie Sanders impression, Louis-Dreyfus, in her third time as "SNL" host, reprised the character she played on "Seinfeld" for nine seasons to poke fun at last week's contentious Democratic debate in Brooklyn, New York. Also, Kate McKinnon stepped back into Hillary Clinton's sensible heels for the sketch.

Louis-Dreyfus' Elaine was called on to ask questions from the audience as a longtime New Yorker. Her first question went to Sanders: "How exactly are you going to break up the big banks?"

"Ya break them up," David's Sanders said, enthusiastically.

"Once I'm elected president," he then said after Elaine pressed him for an actual plan, "I'll have a nice shvitz in the White House gym, then I'll go to the big banks. I'll sit them down and yada yada yada, they'll be broken up."

"What?" Elaine responded. "No, No, you can't yada yada at a debate. Also, you yada yada'd through the best part."

"No, I mentioned the shvitz," he answered.

Then, Louis-Dreyfus gave us a look into her own feelings regarding playing Elaine when she asked Clinton, "Doesn't it suck to be the only girl in a group of guys?"

"Yes it does, my sister-friend," Clinton rejoiced.

"Well, don't worry because everyone thinks you are by far the funniest, I mean, the most qualified," Elaine stated.

Elaine's final question once again referred back to Louis-Dreyfus and pulled in David, as well.

"Sen. Sanders, you believe that the super-rich should pay more in taxes," she asked. "But, wouldn't that be bad for actors who made a lot of money on a certain very successful sitcom?... I mean, wouldn't it be even worse for the person who created that sitcom?" I mean, wouldn't he lose a lot of money? Do you, uh, see what I'm sayin'?"

Watch the sketch below to find out how David — we mean Sanders — responded:

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Here's why Led Zeppelin is being sued over 'Stairway to Heaven' 45 years later

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Led Zeppelin is going to court for a copyright infringement suit regarding their 1971 hit "Stairway to Heaven."

The case against Led Zeppelin was filed by a trustee for the estate of Randy Wolfe, a member of the rock band Spirit, back in 2014.

The lawsuit claims that Led Zeppelin copied the introduction to Spirit's 1968 song "Taurus."

So why is this just hitting the courts now? Shouldn't the staute of limitations be up?

Turns out, no. But by something like a technicality.

"They are legally allowed to bring it up now because Led Zeppelin reissued 'Stairway to Heaven,' so there was a new master recording created [and] they got around the statute of limitations that way," Josh Kaplan, a lawyer and manager of musicians, told Business Insider.

The statute of limitations for copyright infringement says action must be taken "within three years after the claim accrued."

The same court deciding this case awarded Marvin Gaye's family more than $7 million in the "Blurred Lines" trial. That case is currently being appealed.

"I don't think that this case is specific to that decision," Kaplan said. "But I think [the 'Blurred Lines' case] muddied the waters from extending traditional copyright infringment from the infringement of notes to just the idea or influence."

These cases are difficult because there is no strict guideline to follow, Kaplan added.

"There's no test to what's borrowing an idea versus straight up taking an idea," he said. "You have to look at everything that's surrounding it ... [the judge] didn't judge one way or another, he just said that there was enough there to survive the summary judgement or a motion to dismiss."

Led Zeppelin has faced cases like these before for songs such as "Dazed and Confused" and "Whole Lotta Love."

For more on the case, read this breakdown.

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Netflix now makes better shows than HBO

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Netflix has kicked HBO out of the top spot for best original programming, according to an annual streaming video survey by Morgan Stanley.

On Monday, Morgan Stanley released the results of its sixth annual survey of the video streaming industry. And for the first time in the survey's history, Netflix moved into the number one spot among non-cable (“over-the-top”) services and premium networks (like HBO and Showtime).

The survey measured only original programming from non-cable and premium networks, not traditional TV networks or licensed programming. It included 2,501 adults from the U.S.

The percentage of the population that ranked Netflix’s original programming number one rose from 23% last year to 29% this year. HBO came in second at 18%, while Showtime, Hulu, and Amazon all hovered in the 4-5% range. Starz lagged at about 2%.

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Netflix has been spending aggressively on original content in 2016, and Netflix executives have characterized it as the best investment for the company moving forward.  Netflix will release 600 hours of original content this year, including 31 original shows.

This strategy seems to be working to snag and retain subscribers. About 45% of Netflix members surveyed by Morgan Stanley cited originals as a driver of their subscriptions, up from 34% last year.

And research by AllFlicks, a site that tracks Netflix’s catalog, showed that Netflix's originals get better "star ratings" on average than other Netflix content (such as TV shows licensed from legacy networks). Netflix originals have an average rating of 3.87 stars (out of 5), higher than the 3.47 stars "other content" averages.

Originals are, however, expensive to produce. And the move deeper and deeper toward original content might be one reason why Netflix's US catalog has shrunk by 31.7% since the start of 2014.

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RANKED: The 23 best CGI-enhanced movies ever

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Since the late 1970s, computer-generated imagery, or CGI, has become one of Hollywood's most indispensable tools — particularly in the kind of enormous, spectacle-driven franchise film on which the industry increasingly relies.

Today, CGI can be found in almost everything you see on the big screen. A great example is "The Jungle Book," out this weekend, a live-action retelling of the classic 1967 Disney animated feature. It features eye-popping, realistic CGI animals that "man-cub" Mowgli encounters deep in the jungle. 

But before "Jungle Book," there were movies that changed the way the whole medium was understood and wielded with CGI, and expanded the kinds of stories Hollywood can tell.

Here we rank the 23 best movies ever to use CGI (limited to live-action, rather than animated, movies).

 

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23. “The Black Hole” (1979)

This dark sci-fi fantasy scared the pants off kids in the late '70s, who thought they were going to a typical family-friendly Disney movie. Instead, this look at a mad scientist in charge of a spacecraft heading straight to a black hole was not just a thriller, but displayed a lot of never-before-seen computer-generated sights.



22. “The Perfect Storm” (2000)

Wolfgang Petersen's adaptation of Sebastian Junger's book about the doomed voyage of commercial fishing vessel the "Andrea Gail" during the real-life Perfect Storm of 1991 follows the crew (played by, among others, George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg) as they find themselves taking on massive storm conditions. Thanks to CGI, we see what it would be like to battle monstrous waves.



21. “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006)

Though there were many practical effects and costumes that made up the incredible fantasy world of this classic by Guillermo del Toro, the film also used CGI to heighten the unique setting explored by a young girl.



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41 movies you have to see this summer

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Cheer up, summer is around the corner. And with that comes a whole lot of blockbusters from Hollywood, plus some comedy and surprising doses of thoughtful drama.

Wedged between the must-see titles like "Captain America: Civil War," "X-Men: Apocalypse," and "Suicide Squad" are Seth Rogen's "Neighbors 2" and the new "Ghostbusters," plus titles for the kids, like "Finding Dory" and "The Secret Life of Pets."

Here we break down 41 (!) movies that should be on your calendar this summer:

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"Captain America: Civil War" (Release Date: May 6)

The Avengers are up against their fiercest foes: themselves. In the third "Captain America" film, a rift in the group has led the superheroes to pick sides — Team Captain America and Team Iron Man. Heralded by many to be the best Marvel movie yet, this blockbuster has off-the-charts hype.



"High-Rise" (Release Date: May 13)

Tom Hiddleston continues to show the range of characters he can play as he stars in the latest from director Ben Wheatley. In this trippy thriller, he plays a doctor who moves into a swanky high-rise that is slowly making residents go mad.



"Money Monster" (Release Date: May 13)

Directed by Jodie Foster, this thriller starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts follows a popular financial TV host (Clooney) who is held hostage by an irate investor on his live television show.



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Actor Dave Franco reveals what it was like to audition to play young Han Solo

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Dave Franco (“Now You See Me,” “Neighbors”) was one of the bigger names to audition for the young Han Solo role that is currently being cast for a standalone movie about the legendary “Star Wars” character coming out in 2018.

While at CinemaCon last week to promote his upcoming movie, “Now You See Me 2,” Franco gave MTV a glimpse into the audition process.

Franco, who is no longer in the running for the role, said he went in one time and had fun doing the audition, but because of the project’s high profile, the news quickly went everywhere, and he had to tell people, “I know as much as you do.” Which was very little.

But he did admit that the challenge in casting the role is trying to figure out what the movie’s directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, are looking for.

“I’m not good with impressions,” Franco told MTV, and so he said he didn’t try to mimic Harrison Ford’s portrayal of Solo in his audition. “I think that’s the reason it’s so hard to cast this role, too. Do they want someone to perfectly embody who Harrison Ford is or do they want to go a completely different route? Do they want someone to look really similar to him? I don’t know, I think they are struggling with that.”

Last week, Deadline reported that 26-year-old actor Alden Ehrenreich (“Hail, Caesar!”) is the frontrunner for the role, according to sources close to the casting.

Watch Franco talk about the Han Solo audition here:

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