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...populist record while running Mexico's gargantuan capital was largely positive. And opponents' attempts to paint him as a Mexican Hugo Ch?vez, the radically leftist and stridently anti-U.S. President of Venezuela, have gained little traction. Part of that is because L?pez takes pains to pair his social welfare ambitions with an investment-friendly business sense that Wall Street, for example, has found appealing in other modern Latin leftists like Brazilian President Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva...
...many, paying Harvard’s gargantuan termbill just got a little easier. Last week, officials from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid announced that an expansion of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, effective this fall, will eliminate the family contribution for students with family incomes under $60,000 per year. But the good news comes with a sobering addition: tuition will rise this fall to a total of $43,655 per student. The expansion of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) is a great stride in Harvard’s financial aid efforts. Previously, HFAI waived family...
Long, long ago, blockbusters ruled the earth. They were gargantuan compared to the productions of today; they featured casts of thousands, budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and they attracted droves of eager audience members...
...limited-edition Peugeot 407 convertible, turns down the volume on the Black Eyed Peas and pulls her Moto Razr V3 out of her Gucci tote. "The traffic's terrible," she tells the friend she should have met 10 minutes ago at the Mall of the Emirates, the gargantuan new shopping destination that looms out of the construction-site-riddled desert along Dubai's Sheik Zayed Road...
...slopes, the new movie finds our antiheroes visiting Sardinia in overripe middle age. Experience has taught them little more than how to hone their barbs. Their fashion choices are worse than ever, and the embonpoint of token bimbo Gigi (Marie-Anne Chazel) has been enlarged to gargantuan proportions. Past entanglements collide with new realities to create fresh comic crises within the group. "They're really trashy and amazingly repulsive, yet they accept it in one another as the price to pay to remain friends," explains Patrice Leconte, who directed the original movies and the new release. "That's also...