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...naturally, we pee on him. And not just once. We pee on him with such great frequency that from dusk until dawn the urine rains down like a biblical plague. Urinators comment that the statue can be difficult to mount, since it is already dripping wet from previous visitors. I know a room of boys that peed on John Harvard three times a night for an entire week—it was the primary activity of their evenings...
...small minimum investment of $100. The funds' advisers are rare in the business in that they are paid salaries, not commissions. The funds have attracted $36 million so far, outpacing the $24 million average of other new funds. "It is a good example of our triple bottom line, says Dawn Sweeney, head of AARP Services: "improve member value, drive social change and bring revenue back into the organization...
Apocalypto, set in 16th century Latin America, is more of the problematic same. By dawn's early light, a brutish Maya war party falls upon an Edenic jungle village--murder, rape and enslavement their goal. Among their captives is Jaguar Paw who, having hidden his pregnant wife and firstborn, narrowly escapes--a little divine intervention here--having his heart cut out by the Maya high priests. He is then given the opportunity to run to save himself (and his family), which involves a high degree of athleticism and a lot of skill at improvising killing tools from such simple materials...
...will celebrate Wilder’s accomplishments as a screenwriter. Throughout his career Wilder wrote screenplays for over 70 films and directed close to 30. While most of the films in this series were also directed by Wilder, some, such as “Hold Back the Dawn,” were directed by outside directors working from his screenplays...
...director four years earlier because of questions raised about his role in the Iran-contra affair. By 1991, the Berlin Wall had fallen, but Gates's nomination to be the nation's top spy reopened an intense debate that had been festering within U.S. intelligence since the dawn of the Cold War: How big a threat was the Soviet Union...