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...actor in question is Dana Marschz - his last name is nearly unpronounceable, just the first reason he has trouble getting jobs - and he is played by the English comedian Steve Coogan with the lank hair, toothy smile and blithe sweetness that recall Tiny Tim, the eccentric ukuleleist of the '60s. Coogan has been everywhere lately, starring in little movies (A Cock and Bull Story: Tristram Shandy) and guesting in bigger ones. He had a brief, explosive turn as the director in Tropic Thunder, and he's popped up in Finding Amanda, Hot Fuzz, Marie Antoinette, Night at the Museum...
...Administration has clearly decided to go in that direction. "We fully expect Russia to keep its word to provide free access to humanitarian assistance and allow any of our assistance to arrive either by military or commercial means by air, land and sea," said White House press secretary Dana Perino...
Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussein, 21, was already discouraged a month ago. "If you compare our situation with other countries, like the Asian countries, other athletes have already competed in 12 events. We're still in Baghdad," she told TIME, standing on the crushed 1980s asphalt where she trains. But having dodged bullets, curfews, and sectarian threats through five years of war, Hussein was not going to be stopped by training disadvantages and a lack of funding. She saw an overarching hope for helping to heal some of Iraq's bitter sectarian divides with this Olympics. "Sports can unify the Iraqi...
Early in The X Files: I Want to Believe, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), long ago demobbed from the FBI, are back in the Bureau's headquarters, waiting outside a closed door to take a meeting with their former colleagues. They glance at a wall portrait of the President ... and for a moment we hear the first six notes of the whistled theme that cued '90s TV watchers to the weekly spookiness of The X Files. Hmmm. Could George W. Bush be an alien - or an alien abductee? A yes to either question would explain...
...embedded in most texts, often adding timely examples from real-life practitioners. Plus, the texts are produced on an open-source platform, meaning they can be updated easily and professors can customize each textbook to match a particular lesson plan. Those are major advantages over paper editions, says Dana Lanham, an advertising professor at University of North Carolina in Charlotte. "Being online lets the content be so dynamic," says Lanham, who will teach some 70 students using Flat World texts this fall. "Usually textbooks are out of date as soon as you print them...