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"Harry Potter" star Emma Watson is graduating from Brown University.
The 24-year-old British actress is due to graduate this month from the Providence, Rhode Island, Ivy League university with a degree in English literature.
Watson started at Brown in 2009. Along the way, she spent time studying at England’s Oxford University and keeping up her film career.
A Brown spokesman says Watson is due to attend the graduation ceremony on May 25.
Watson most recently starred in the biblical epic “Noah” with Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly.
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New Zealand soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, touring Australia to celebrate her 70th birthday, makes a rule of never discussing retirement.
In keeping with the philosophy she says she borrowed her own theatric hero, Dame Judi Dench, Te Kanawa won’t rule out returning to Australia for an 80th or even 90th birthday tour.
“You never know,” she said on Thursday at a Parliament House reception where she was a guest of House of Representatives Speaker Bronwyn Bishop, an opera fan.
“Never say never, but 90th — they’d be wheeling me in in a chair,” she quipped.
Te Kanawa later bowed to the House of Representatives to the applause of Australian lawmakers, an experience she humbly described as “pretty special.”
She no longer performs in operas, shifting her focus to recitals and concerts. Her work schedule is less hectic than it has been, but she continues globe-trotting at a frenetic pace.
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