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Somebody should develop a ratings system for children's movies that ranks them on a scale of how much they make parents want to put their eyes out. At one end would be Beverly Hills Chihuahua - and I salute every parent who gave selflessly of their time and money so that their children could see dogs in dresses. At the other end would be Wall*E, Spirited Away, or for me, the latter Harry Potter movies - films that you might never have considered seeing sans kids, but if halfway through, your children said they wanted to leave, you'd ignore...
Colin Cotterill owes a lot to hepatitis. In 1990, as an aid worker for UNESCO, he was dispatched to Laos to develop a curriculum for English classes. It was a bit of a Sisyphean assignment, since all the English textbooks in the country were written in German, a language virtually no one in Laos understood. On the flight from Europe, however, fate intervened. A doctor in the adjacent seat leaned over. "He said, 'You do realize you have hepatitis, don't you?'" Cotterill recalls. "I looked at myself in the mirror, and, by God, there were these big yellow tennis...
...already got two world-famous universities in the city who are major landholders,” said Seidel, who is an urban planner. “A third large educational institution in Cambridge is going to bring benefits but also requires we think carefully about how we develop that relationship.”—Staff writer Bora Fezga can be reached at bfezga@fas.harvard.edu—Staff writer Vidya B. Viswanathan can be reached at viswanat@fas.harvard.edu...
...We’re trying to get people more aware of walking, getting outside, and connecting it back to the environment,” she said. “One of the points is to develop lifelong habits now in college to carry on in the future...
...NATO's former spokesman in Kabul. "It comes from that chap, who you have not seen before, who is behaving a little bit oddly. The people around him know there is something wrong, but as a foreigner you don't really understand, so that is why we need to develop the police...