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...Chaney’s charges focus on the projector screen as the well-muscled Leonidas—star of the mayhem-laden film “300”—claws his way up a bare rock face. The Spartan commander has only a cloak and a loincloth to protect him from the elements. Despite his formidable abdominals, the climb seems to be giving him some trouble...
...Test of English as a Foreign Language, for instance—qualified applicants from troubled environments cannot hope for anything resembling the leniency shown to Ben-Eze, who apparently was guaranteed admission so long as he could raise his ‘Academic Index’ to the bare minimum tolerated by Ivy League bylaws. I couldn’t tell you if the New York Times makes it to Nablus in hard copy, but at Web cafés around the world, aspiring scholars learned that Harvard will compromise for students who show enough promise—at basketball.It...
...remain rampant in developed regions like North America and Europe. The U.S. has spent more than $5 billion this decade aiding Colombia's largely failed efforts to eradicate coca cultivation. Meanwhile, Washington and the U.N. have tried to get Bolivia and Peru to reduce their coca crops to the bare minimum for traditional consumption. Peru and Bolivia are the region's second and third largest coca producers, behind Colombia, with about more than 75,000 hectares (185,000 acres) under cultivation, or almost half of global supply...
...appears because as vivid and visceral as Human Smoke is, it has a maddeningly slippery quality. In presenting bare facts unadorned by any commentary, Human Smoke cloaks itself in an aura of limpid, virtuous purity. But beneath that cloak, things get a little murky because in presenting the facts as he does, Baker is making an argument that he doesn't explicitly state. Does he really believe--as he seems to--that aerial bombing is on a moral continuum with Nazi genocide? And that Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews is comparable to Churchill's hatred of the Germans...
...class - Telpuk's meteoric rise to national fame was consecrated by her naked appearance on the cover of February's Argentina edition of Playboy. But it's the suitcase she's holding in that photograph, bearing the flags of Argentina and Venezuela, and the cover line "Corruption Laid Bare" that reveal the story of how she became a household name...