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...believe it or not, movie theaters. On top of that challenge, director Fay Sam Ang took on the additional burden of making a mythological film about a beautiful half-snake, half-human without the aid of digital special effects. Ang's solution: to glue live snakes onto a cap worn by his exceedingly cooperative leading lady, 17-year old newcomer Pich Chanboramey. "Sometimes the snakes would leap off her head," the director recalls, "and we'd have to chase them around...
...have had to lease the French Cultural Center and give outdoor viewings in the courtyard of a local television station. (The film opens in theaters in Thailand this month.) Cambodian audiences have been enthusiastic, and Ang is grateful the filming is over. Persuading Pich Chanboramey to don the hissing cap of serpents, he says, wasn't easy. "When she first saw the snakes, she cried and cried," Fay Sam Ang says. "But I told her she had to be professional. In the end, it was no problem. The snakes would just give her little kisses on the cheek...
...that right, babe!). While the NFL continues to have great turnover among its teams, creating a sense of universal optimism (sorry, Ohio not included), Major League Baseball prevents all but about eight teams from competing for a World Series due to a lack of revenue sharing and no salary cap. The National Basketball Association boasts a terrible, day-in and day-out product and the National Hockey League has wallowed in mediocrity for at least ten years. The NFL, with its short, 16 game season, continues to lead the way in attendance, TV ratings, and general, nationwide fan interest...
Efforts to reform the Core began in 1997 with the Core Review Committee. But its recommendations--to add more Core courses in every area, to add the Quantitative Reasoning requirement and to cap enrollment in certain courses--did not go far enough. The addition of new Core courses has been minimal and capped enrollment in some courses has only resulted in students being lotteried out of their preferred option in a certain Core area...
...generators in the Northeast, it has also cast a harsh light on independent power producers and middlemen who rule the wholesale market. To reduce any chance of foul play, the New York State public service commission is considering the implementation of a temporary, $150 per megawatt-hour wholesale price cap. Producers say the cap will discourage investment, but commission chairman Maureen Helmer dismisses that as an idle threat. "The market here will always be one of the most lucrative to build--I can't just see people walking away...