Word: attractions
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...sure that the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford are thrilled,” Miller said. “It’ll be a lot easier for them to attract top students...
...were going to make it because a lot of people said no one was going to come because it was about independent film and it was in the middle of winter. I put it there to make it harder for people to get to so it would attract attention and you knew that the people that did come came because they cared. It was a risk. The first year three or four hundred people came total. And now you have 45,000 people and it?s right at the edge of things; there?s only so much the city...
...Initiative is to encourage lots of interaction...between the Middle East and the Kennedy School so we can understand, on the political and economic level, what is going on in the Middle East,” said Dagli, who added that the Governance Initiative hoped that the trip would attract Arab students who would eventually return to “become agents of change” in their countries.Ambassador Barbara Bodine, the director of the Initiative, did not respond to requests for comment last night.The expedition has also received help from alumni in the region, who have provided logistical support...
...When opposites attract" demonstrates to partisan politicians that there are at least two political personalities, former Presidents Bush and Clinton, who can work together on a wide range of issues for the common good. Those two exhibited mutual respect, unselfish behavior, kindly affection and dignified civility rarely seen in or out of government. They give an impressive example of comity in a realm in which divisiveness and partisanship rule on many fronts...
...detention. “This was the first time that someone that I know directly was detained in this manner,” Dzambukira wrote in an e-mail. “One of the things that surprised me was that a student clearly doing academic work would attract this kind of scrutiny,” he added. According to Amnesty International’s 2005 report on Zimbabwe, the country’s police and intelligence forces “were implicated in numerous cases of torture, assault, and ill-treatment.” The report said that...