Word: attractions
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...India's film industry is the most prolific in the world, with about 1,000 movies made each year (compared with Hollywood's 750), and they attract a global audience of 3.6 billion?a billion more than their American cousins. But until recently, Bollywood's talents were considered too foreign to make the jump to Europe or America. A handful of Indian directors and actors are escaping that mold, and now Rahman is breaking out too. The composer has long been a musical magpie, borrowing freely from an array of traditions: South Asian, Sufi, Irish folk, rock, reggae, even ragtime...
Sporting complimentary “Class of 2008” t-shirts from the admissions office and eagerly flashing their siren red folders to attract fellow pre-frosh, the prospective students swarmed the newly-green Yard for the annual weekend festivities aimed at keeping Harvard’s yield rate at the top of the Ivy League...
...also important that the admissions office do a better job of getting applications from international students of more socioeconomically diverse backgrounds. The prospect of applying to an expensive, far-away U.S. university just seems too out-of-reach for poorer international students, thus the College tends to attract many well-off students from abroad, but proportionally fewer from disadvantaged backgrounds. The College should tout its excellent financial aid program and step up international recruiting to get a more socioeconomically diverse group of students from overseas, not throw more undergraduates at the issue...
...service requirement, which may be fulfilled over a subsequent Summer or after college, has helped to attract some Harvard students, including Montauk and Joseph H. Badino ’05, to the program...
...certainly seems to attract those people who like a certain bit of hardship,” said senior Kip McDaniel, a stroke of the men’s heavyweight team...