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...spanking, his movies play the cunning jester, and all is forgiven. Destiny, though its beginning and ending are literally incendiary, is at heart a ripping yarn with much buckling of swashes, and musical numbers, too. The Other, a hit at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival (where Chahine received a 50th Anniversary life-achievement award) and at the Toronto and New York fests, is a delirious blast - a politico-romantic amalgam of melodrama and music, at a pace and pitch that Bollywood directors wouldn't dare dream...
...Terri Schiavo - style social issues as well as legislation proposing crackdowns on bikers who pop wheelies, students who wear droopy pants and truckers who hang fake cojones on their rigs. It also slashed $5 billion from the state budget. "I just got in an argument about whether we're 50th or 45th in the nation in graduation rates," says Florida house minority leader Dan Gelber. "What a great debate to have...
...smartest staff or students, though, is not just about pulling in cash. As part of its $400 million strategy to break into the world's top 50 universities by 2015, the University of Warwick - ranked 57th, according to the U.K. Times Higher Education Supplement list, as it approaches its 50th birthday - plans to permanently host branches of three or four overseas research universities on its site in the heart of England. Nigel Thrift, Warwick's vice-chancellor, won't say which universities it has in its sights; negotiations with North American and Asian institutions are ongoing. But its "International Quarter...
...Harvard is an important part of his life. Ted made lifelong friends at college. Several worked with him early in his Senate career, and he goes to football games with them. At his 50th reunion in 2004, he spoke to his classmates about how the Senate has changed since he was first elected...
...Khan, whose 50th Harvard reunion is this week, has donated millions to the University in the past, endowing a professorship and a chair, and supporting library and museum programs...