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...says about one in five of her classmates from the Edhec Business School in Lille, where she studied marketing a decade ago, also moved abroad. That pace is now quickening: the school says one in four of its class of 2006 found their first jobs outside France. Her own brief work experience in France was typical of recent graduates: she says she was put on a series of temporary contracts in her first job. "If you are young, you don't have the feeling in France that people are investing in you," she complains. She's been following the twists...
...your multiplex, and try, just try, to find a movie where women are as plentiful and powerful as men. 300, the Spartan workout video, has one important female role, of King Leonidas' wife (Lena Headey); that leaves 299 for the guys. In Shooter, the hero-on-the-run gets brief assistance from a young widow (Kate Mara) before returning to his mission of evaporating a million bad guys. Girlish Jon Heder, one of the two skaters in the Will Ferrell hit Blades of Glory, does have a love interest (Jenna Fischer), but Ferrell doesn't--unless it's Heder. Indeed...
...call to Semiti Qalowasa was brief. The anonymous male said: "Stop working with the squatters and exposing corruption, otherwise you are forcing us to come and rape your wife, and kill your kids and you as well...
...Tuyen says she didn't have time during the brief ceremony to coach Jolie on how Pax should be fed, but she's not worried that Pax will have trouble adjusting to the food in America, since he already eats some Western-style food. "Sang loves to eat yogurt and spaghetti." (Unlike most east Asians, many Vietnamese eat locally made yogurt, a legacy of French colonialists.) "He's very clever and I hope he has a good life. We just hope he will return to visit us. But we don't know," says Tuyen...
CLARIFICATION: Due to an editing error, the March 22 news brief "Tuition and Expenses To Rise 4.5% Next Year, But Will Be Offset by Financial Aid Growth, Officials Say" did not fully contextualize a quote by Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles. Knowles was referring to a 6.8 percent increase in need-based financial aid when he said it reflected a “commitment to welcoming the most talent group of students to Harvard College...