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...this competition between schools that increases the quality of life at colleges and provides a better living and educational environment for all students. And while the U.S. News & World Report rankings of schools are often criticized for stressing the wrong criteria, the rankings help to foster this necessary competition...
...even if that means making the same movie twice. Michael Mann's 1986 thriller Manhunter was also based on the novel Red Dragon. Studios adore the Lecter movies because they share an attribute extremely rare among violent thrillers: fascinating female characters beloved by both actresses and female moviegoers. Jodie Foster won a Best Actress Oscar as Clarice Starling in Lambs; Julianne Moore stepped into Clarice's sensible shoes in Hannibal. Red Dragon's female lead is British actress Emily Watson (see following story), who plays a tough, young blind woman...
...image of an impossibly wealthy and influential organization was one the KMT tried to foster even through its Central Headquarters building. Opened in 1998 on a prime piece of downtown Taipei real estate, the $144 million, 12-story edifice glistens with floors and walls tiled in marble imported from Spain and India. In one of the most cramped and densely populated cities in Asia, the headquarters presides over a wide, leafy boulevard, overshadowing the brick Taiwan presidential offices situated across the street?a building that was once virtually an annex of the party anyway, since a Kuomintang chairman occupied...
...km/h winds felled trees, blew off roofs and shattered shop windows, leaving floods and power cuts in the storm's wake, but no deaths were reported. Two people were injured when a roof collapsed on them. "It looks like we were lucky," said a relieved Louisiana Governor Mike Foster. Less fortunate were the Caribbean island nations on Lili's route to the U.S.: she killed four people each in Jamaica and St. Vincent, as well as causing extensive damage on Barbados, where 400 homes were destroyed. IVORY COAST Can They Stop? The Ivorian government and rebel soldiers moved toward...
...John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition...