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According to Handy, the exact number of married or single students with children either previously or currently enrolled at the College is almost impossible to determine conclusively. Harvard never surveyed students about their marital status or family arrangement because the number of married or single undergraduates was never especially high, Handy says...
...includes such information as changes in a student's financial aid situation or enrollment status, students' level of health insurance and exact legal status as non-residents, according to HIO Associate Director Sharon Ladd...
...Which is, of course, hogwash. According to eyewitness accounts, the killers started slashing and shooting as soon as they arrived at the temple. And TIME Cairo correspondent Armany Radwan faults the cops for the exact opposite reason: "It took a long time for reinforcements to arrive at the scene, which made for the very high death toll." If they were trying to take hostages, the Islamic Group had a strange way of going about...
...would also exact a little revenge on Disney, which is countering Anastasia with a 17-day rerelease of its 1989 hit The Little Mermaid as well as the kid-oriented Robin Williams comedy Flubber. "Disney is throwing the kitchen sink against Anastasia," says Daly. "They're doing everything to kill it. And I guess if you were in their shoes you'd do the same thing." One of the men in those shoes, Disney motion-pictures-group chairman Richard Cook, deems it business as usual. Disney has tried--and succeeded in--undercutting most of its rivals' big animated films...
...storytelling technique, though, is pure 20th century--1937, to be exact, when a young woman, surrounded by funny dwarfs, faced up to an evil sorcerer, cheated death and found her royal destiny. Snow White was a family film, but so were most movies, and it was a musical when perhaps a third of all films had songs. Now there's only a niche family market and virtually no other films are musicals, but the format is unaltered. That was then, and this is then...