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...ensuing plot tracks the descent into an inescapable nightmare. Marie is driven by an overwhelming desire to escape the poverty and tyranny of Stalin's Russia and return to France. When a French acting troupe comes to Kiev, Marie seizes an opportunity of escape by giving a letter to the lead actress played by Catherine Deneuve. Marie hopes the French government will recognize her plight and help her return to France...
...driven world of Harvard students, it may not happen all that often. But professors who have to face empty classrooms say it doesn't go unnoticed when students stay...
...dropout rate will skyrocket, and it will be disproportionately students from poorer districts who need a solid secondary education the most. Many students who come to school, pass their classes and fulfill graduation requirements will leave without a diploma, which is a prerequisite to advancement in today's technology-driven economy. There must be some less painful way to improve educational standards in Massachusetts...
...rendezvous with Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the turbaned leader of Hizballah, the time and place are kept secret. Eventually you are driven into a barricaded neighborhood protected by bearded militiamen and hustled into an apartment block with mirrored windows. Wallets, key chains, and even belts are removed from you and taken away for inspection. Finally you are seated in a room dominated by an acrylic painting of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. At the far end is Hizballah's yellow banner, the words "Islamic Revolution of Lebanon" written in Arabic beneath the silhouette of a holy warrior's rifle...
...later. It avoids the problem of cooling the engine by not having an engine. It is a sailing ship, not a steamship. He calls it Starwisp. It is a fishnet made of very fine wires and weighing less than an ounce. The net acts as a sail and is driven by the pressure of radio waves generated by a huge radio transmitter. The transmitter stays put, with its radio beam pointing in the direction we wish to explore, and the sail travels along the beam, picking up momentum from the radio waves. This scheme works beautifully in theory, but there...