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...would think that a flutist-cum-poet with a 1,520 sat, an unblemished transcript and a passion for philosophy would find a warm welcome at Houston's Rice University. Renaissance Girl was involved in so many extracurricular activities - band, the literary magazine, the astronomy, philosophy and poetry clubs - that it took minute handwriting to squeeze them onto the application. Yet she never made it off the waiting list...
...star Michael Weatherly puts it, a "gene-splicing experiment" of the styles of its two producers. Eglee, a veteran of Moonlighting and Murder One, originally thought of the show as "an urban youth ensemble." Cameron came up with the terrorist "infocalypse" and the central character--a bike-messenger-cum-thief, on the run from the military program that created her, who partners with an underground journalist named Logan (Weatherly) to search for her roots...
...FATF was established by the world's seven richest nations in 1989. The principality is not alone in being prodded for failing to do enough to stop the flow of dirty money. In June this year, a French parliamentary committee lambasted Monaco, another tiny kingdom-cum-tax-haven, for imposing so few financial controls that "money laundering can thrive." Last February Austria narrowly escaped being booted out of the FATF, which has grown to 26 member governments and two regional organizations, by agreeing not to permit any more anonymous savings accounts to be opened. Even Israel was scolded...
...though funding has been on the rise again since the Blairs moved to Downing Street, there remains an obvious sense of trepidation in the decisions of London's producers and directors. For a nation that could celebrate the new millennium with anything as audacious as the theme park-cum-history museum that is the Millennium Dome, you might think they could at least produce an dramatic innovator on the order of Peter Brook for the turn of the century. But rather than face the years ahead straight-on, the powers that be on the West End have chosen to turn...
Brooke Ellison graduated magna cum laude on June 7. At the Commencement ceremony, Ellison delivered one of the three student orations...