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...case there is any doubt about what "multiply" is referring to, a brief interlude interrupts the song. In a classroom, a teacher attempts to mathematically explain why rabbit overpopulation has occurred...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bunnies (and House Videos) Don't Die. They Multiply. | 3/7/2010 | See Source »

...dollars in remittances. Saudi Arabia also barred its citizens from traveling to Thailand as tourists. Nabil Ashri, the current Saudi chargé d'affaires, said the decision to downgrade relations was "obviously for safety reasons and due to repeated failures of the Thai authorities to adequately solve or explain any of the cases to Saudi authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand's Blue Diamond Heist: Still a Sore Point | 3/7/2010 | See Source »

...Public education was an integral component of Hanks' vision. "We wanted to explain the arc of the Pacific war, the motivation within from the strategic perspective," he says. "So we start with the vast Pacific Ocean from Hawaii, and you just keep going farther and farther west. You get a dramatic sense of what it must have been like to be on one of those battleships. I used to wonder why in hell little Peleliu was in any way, shape or form so damn important. But then when you see how close Okinawa is, well, you immediately understand. Peleliu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

...discouraging violence or telling youngsters in the projects to go to college. The only time Cheadle convinced me Tango might be capable of bad things was when he lunged at Ellen Barkin, who plays the sadistic top brass in the police department. She is always fully clothed, which may explain why Tango calls her "Dude." She's wretched and he gets a laugh, but it's worth noting that only sainted wives and the topless rate as women in Fuqua world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brooklyn's Finest: Training Day in Overdrive | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

...they didn't speak to each other. "I became a pariah, and she just refused to talk to me," Kaprow said. "When she saw me eating in the wardroom, she'd come in and grab her food and run away - she would not talk to me." Kaprow can't explain how Graf continued to rise up the Navy command ladder. "Certain people in the Navy are preselected for command, and no matter what happens, the Navy will make sure that it happens," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Complaints About Female 'Captain Bligh' Began Early | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

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