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...later than I thought. Suddenly, it seemed I was the only one left in the dining hall, save for a few dozen busts. I entered the small talk fray once more...
Fancy a hip replacement and an Asian vacation? With bargain prices, a wealth of medical specialists and alluring post-op locales, Southeast Asia has proved irresistible to ailing tourists. Singapore entered the clinical fray about a decade ago, followed by Thailand a few years later; now Malaysia is on the health-tourism bandwagon...
Though he frequently spoke out about events in the Middle East, Said—who once served on the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s governing council—attempted for the most part to remain outside the political fray...
...also indulged his social ambitions by organizing celebrity-studded receptions and junkets to Algeria, sponsoring pro sports teams and founding satellite TV channels based in London and Paris. Last September, Moumen launched his French Khalifa TV from his €36 million villa in Cannes. But the image began to fray when Khalifa TV's brief time on the air featured tacky, uninspired programming. On July 2 Khalifa TV's debt and insolvency led a French commercial court to order the company liquidated. It was a fate Khalifa Airlines' French unit also met eight days later, a mere formality, because last...
Though he tended to stay out of the political fray on campus, Ford spoke out against the Vietnam war in a Commencement speech in 1967, and was one of several top American educators to pay a visit to President Johnson that year to express concern for the repercussions of the war on foreign policy, the nation and higher education...