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...Attracting the highest-caliber students, and ensuring that they have the support they need to flourish during graduate school, which is such a vital stage in their intellectual and professional development, is of the utmost importance to the Graduate School,” Kirby said through a spokesperson...
...Water is precious in this country, and knowing where to find it allowed Sturt's nomadic ancestors to flourish for tens of thousands of years in an environment so hostile it might have been some divine practical joke. While her painting is not a map in any conventional sense, Geoff Vivian, community development officer for the shire of Halls Creek, speculates as to its provenance. "I think scientists will one day find," he says, that there's "sophisticated hydrographic knowledge" embedded in Aboriginal myth. Maggie Long, another Jaru painter, has popped into the arts center to chat to manager...
...blockbuster status they will never attain. Among this summer's underperformers are a sequel (The Chronicles of Riddick), a roundup of old movie monsters (Van Helsing) and two dips into antique legend (Troy and King Arthur). Studios might have risked less if they'd actually tried something original. Sequels flourish especially in conservative times, when audiences are in retreat from the shock of the new. Which is why you could place a small bet on a Bush re-election; voters may choose the sequel to a wild ride over a four-year courtship with Kerry and Edwards. But if this...
...Sequels flourish especially in conservative times, when audiences are in retreat from the shock of the new. Which is why you could place a small bet on a Bush re-election; voters may choose the sequel to a wild ride over a four-year courtship with Kerry and Edwards. But if this is so, how to explain the surprise-hit status of Fahrenheit 9/11? Simple. It too is a sequel: the latest in the continuing adventures of Michael Moore, populist rebel with a cause. Remember Bowling for Columbine, kids, when Mike confronted the gun lobby and vanquished an aged Charlton...
Idema, 47, was well known to reporters in Kabul. Given to explosive bursts of rage and camouflage uniforms, he stalked Kabul's few bars and foreign TV-news bureaus, punctuating his stories of chasing al-Qaeda with a flourish of his pistol. At least once he came up with the goods: a seven-hour al-Qaeda training video, parts of which aired in January 2002 on CBS's 60 Minutes. He hinted that he was working undercover for U.S. special forces and as a "special adviser" for Afghan authorities. But he was one of many shadowy, ex--special-operations types...