Word: foreign
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...newsroom drama, the Times remains one of America's top newspapers. While the paper seemed to sag during the past decade, it has regained some bite under the tutelage of Michael Parks, the Pulitzer prizewinning foreign correspondent who became editor in 1997. The paper often beat its Washington rivals in covering campaign-finance abuses last year, does solid coverage of Hollywood business, and is in the middle of a hard-hitting series on police corruption. Though its Sunday magazine remains lightweight, the spiky, liberal-leaning Book Review is winning raves...
Hollywood likes his moves too. In a U.S. market where foreign-language films are hard to find even in art houses, Almodovar, 48, is a reliable moneymaker. He also makes the kind of bright, saucy films Hollywood wishes it could. So the studios have courted him ever since his 1988 hit Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. They bought remake rights for Jane Fonda, then for Whoopi Goldberg (though the film wasn't made), then they asked him to direct Sister Act, First Wives Club, Runaway Bride and, he says, "anything with drag queens." But though he hopes...
...American undergraduates studying in Britain (an increase of 26% in the past three years), family connections, a fondness for all things British and, most of all, the prestige associated with an Oxford, Cambridge or Edinburgh education matter more than price. Yet even though Britain's tuition fees for foreign students are substantial, they are lower than those at many private U.S. schools, and a bachelor's degree usually takes only three years...
Romantic and historic though they may be, these international institutions don't coddle their students the way some American colleges do. Canadian universities come closest to the American concept of in loco parentis, offering numerous welcoming services to foreign students. Still, their staffs are less nurturing than those in the U.S. In Britain the entire college experience bears almost no resemblance to an American one. As Cecile Divino, who recently attended the London School of Economics, observes, "In England there isn't the same type of community network that American colleges have." "It's hard," says Rachel Polner...
...global village, observes David Johnston, the president of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, "borders are less and less barriers and more and more invitations." Those who accept may find they learn as much from living in a new country as they do in their classes. Attending a foreign school, suggests Todd Makurath, "teaches you to think not just in terms of your city or even country but to look at the world as a whole. It's the ultimate learning experience." Nefra Faltas agrees: "My whole world," she says, "seems so much larger...