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...First, all the fellowship advisors except the student's own House advisor read the application. Each reader either votes for or against the candidate...
Just which buildings survived was partly determined by which ones conformed to Taiwan's sometimes laxly enforced construction codes. Puli was especially hard hit because many of its buildings are made of mud and straw. The Sungshan complex might have survived except that earlier this year, a bank on its first two floors reportedly stripped steel beams of concrete reinforcement during renovations...
There are not, however, too many current movies like Three Kings--except, perhaps, in crude outline. On that level, it sounds like dozens of other interchangeable action-adventure scripts. In the aftermath of a war--in this case 1991's Desert Storm--three American soldiers discover a treasure map (you don't want to know where the enemy soldier hid it) that holds the secret of where the Iraqis have stashed the gold they stole from Kuwait. Our heroes set out to find it. In the course of their journey they encounter members of the Iraqi resistance who have been...
Kovach did not comment specifically on Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine's upcoming choice of a new curator, except to say that he hopes his replacement will be "a quality journalist with crystal-clear values...
...main subject of the film is J.K., a hard-working black student with high grades and demonstrated leadership who comes from an underprivileged socioeconomic background. For J.K., getting in to Berkeley seems reasonable except for one item, his significantly below-average SAT score...