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...Globe Awards on Jan. 17, Cameron was a semisurprise winner as Best Director, besting his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, who was nominated for The Hurt Locker. That exemplary Iraq war drama, which won most of the critics' awards, earned just $12.7 million in its domestic release and $3.4 million abroad, for a worldwide total of $16.1 million - less than Avatar amassed at the North American box office last night. Not to equate artistic merit with commercial success, but the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences do like their winners to be movies and actors who have...
...they'll need to rise to the highest circles of power. The problem is that the seats at these schools tend to go to the children of the élite, ensuring that power stays in the upper class - even in the same families - from generation to generation. (Read "Education Abroad: Breaking the Bachot...
...time, all three were studying international education policy at GSE, but they were disappointed that the school did not offer opportunities to gain the necessary experience abroad...
...kind of service exemplified by the project in years to come—and perhaps even turn the undertaking into an actual J-Term course in the future. Currently, the Amigos School in Cambridge has collected over 700 books, waiting to bring literacy to a new group of students abroad through Learning Through Libraries...
...relief to Beijing policymakers who declared that maintaining stable growth was critical to ensuring social stability in the face of the global economic downturn. Thanks to expansive stimulus spending and a flood of cheap credit, the Chinese government was able to ensure growth, giving it clout at home and abroad as other major world economies still grapple with slow recoveries. "Those measures quickly produced results and stopped the remarkable decline in our economic growth, and China thus became the first to, on the whole, achieve recovery and stabilization in its economy," said Ma Jiantang, director of the National Bureau...