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...Germans were outraged that Cruise - with his strong affiliations with Scientology - had been chosen to play the role of Claus von Stauffenberg, a Nazi resistance fighter whom some Germans regard as a national hero because of his attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler. Defense Ministry officials criticized the decision to allow the filmmakers to shoot scenes at historic German landmarks, such as the Bendlerblock where Stauffenberg was executed in 1944. But the final straw for many Germans was when Cruise was awarded a prestigious Bambi media award - similar to an Oscar - for his work in the film. (See pictures...
...response to the policy, military recruiters were temporarily banned from the Law School's campus until a 2006 Supreme Court ruling upheld the Solomon Amendment, which prevents universities from receiving federal funding if they do not allow the military to recruit on campus. Currently the University refuses to officially acknowledge ROTC programs...
Assessing which portfolios are guaranteed to bring returns is a tricky task. The way the local and global economy works is such that market forces allow prices to fluctuate. The value of anything is subject to market forces, even a college education. In some countries’ economies, going to college is actually a disadvantageous thing to do. But because we value a university education so much in America, it is a premium. The more prestigious the school and the more degrees one racks up, the higher the probability that they are going to land that cushion job that they...
...Parenthood” doesn’t allow its viewers this measure of maturity. Instead, it showcases single parenting and sibling rivalries as if it were the first time they had ever been broadcast on television...
...hours of the debate. Passage appeared to be assured only after Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak announced in the late afternoon that he and a group of antiabortion Democrats, who had pushed for more restrictive language in the original House bill, had been satisfied that the Senate version would not allow the use of federal funds to pay for the procedure. That only came after President Obama promised to sign an executive order reaffirming that the bill would maintain a "consistency with longstanding restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion." In reality, that executive order was more a symbolic...