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With Brown University’s announcement that it is planning a need-blind admissions policy for the Class of 2007, students will finally be able to attend all the Ivy League schools regardless of their financial need. The plan, proposed by Brown President Ruth J. Simmons, should be implemented in February after its approval by the university’s governing corporation. This change, which Simmons stated was one of her top priorities, will end Brown’s dubious distinction of being the last Ivy League university to consider students’ financial need as a factor...
...population of just 20 million--that decree alone produced a silent disaster. Sabza Gul, 32, now begs at the Kabul bus station and makes about 50[cents] on a good day. Some years ago, when she was still living in a village north of the city, her husband went blind. The family became dependent on whatever money their son Humayoun, 17, could earn as a field worker. The fields were close to the occasional fighting between Taliban and Northern Alliance forces. Eight months ago he was killed by a stray rocket. "There is no work for women," Sabza says...
...population of just 20 million?that decree alone produced a silent disaster. Sabza Gul, 32, now begs at the Kabul bus station and makes about 50 on a good day. Some years ago, when she was still living in a village north of the city, her husband went blind. The family became dependent on whatever money their son Humayoun, 17, could earn as a field worker. The fields were close to the occasional fighting between Taliban and Northern Alliance forces. Eight months ago he was killed by a stray rocket. "There is no work for women," Sabza says...
...flow, its fish, the way it reflects light, are no longer as they were when we last visited. Although this awareness of transience has been around so long, we resist change, or at least we want it to be imperceptible, millimetric. This is how we manage to turn a blind eye to life's one immutable: death. We like our flux in slow motion...
...infamous Gingerbread Man guides viewers through the special features. A specially animated karaoke sequence is truly delightful—among others, the injured Gingerbread Man, backed up by the Three Blind Mice, wails on a rendition of Boy George’s “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?”. A dubbing featurette detailing the transformation of Shrek into French, Spanish and German language films fleshes out a cheery and thoughtful presentation of a wonderfully mischievous film...