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...working a crowd of working-class Australians near Perth, Rudd isn't as stiff as he's sometimes portrayed. In moments of crisis, his emotions resonate. When wildfires, some sparked by arsonists, ravaged drought-ridden Victoria earlier this year, killing more than 170 people, Rudd broke down on camera, momentarily speechless as he blinked back tears. Angrily, he equated arson with "mass murder." And he knows how to combat bureaucratic timidity with the power of grand gestures. Two of his first actions after taking office were making a landmark apology to Aborigines who were essentially stolen as children from their...
Even USA Network's escapist Royal Pains has a class-conscious premise. Idealistic Dr. Hank Lawson gets fired when he chooses to save a young patient's life before treating a hospital board member. He takes a job as a "concierge doctor" to rich summer people in New York's Hamptons, treating everything from hemophilia to deflated breast implants. It's fluff, but with a theme of modern medical feudalism: top docs attending the richest like courtiers. If your hospital waiting room has cable, watch it sometime...
...reached for comment about the restructuring. Hammonds said that "the responsibilities, programming, and services" provided by the previously separate offices should not change in any way because of the merger."I have worked with student organizations and activities on other campuses, and believe that students' out-of-class experiences engender creativity, fellowship, and 'learning by doing,'" wrote Nelson in an e-mailed statement on Friday. Hammonds, who emphasized that Nelson had extensive experience with both residential life and student activities, noted that Nelson had previously worked at Cornell and Syracuse Universities.The exodus of deans has raised questions in recent months...
...After graduating at the top of his class in the Indonesian national military academy in 1973, he went on to join the army's top brass, and ultimately served as a military observer for U.N. peacekeeping operations in Bosnia during the mid-1990s...
...Born in 1949 into a lower-middle-class military family in eastern Java, Indonesia's most densely populated island...