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Elliott N. Neal ’05, an army Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) cadet, will grab his diploma on June 9 and then drive to Fort Benning, Ga. for training two days later...
...insipid Lebanese pop. Tehran, with its murals of suicide bombers, Versace billboards and rickety buses adorned with portraits of Shi'ite saints, slid by in a smoggy blur. We careered past police, who didn't blink. The driver of my car frowned as I flung out my arm to grab another drink. "You can't do this properly," she said, "if you keep closing your eyes...
...mobility. You might not be rich, but if you worked hard, you could secure them and give your kids a shot at doing even better. But all are becoming wildly expensive. The Scholar minces no words about these worries. College, says its narrator, is "the single best chance to grab a piece of the American Dream. But now the price of admission is threatening that dream." Even Fox's Nanny 911 and ABC's Supernanny offer a fantasy to time-strapped working parents: a child-care professional who swoops in and solves your family's problems...
...films over five decades, turning classic novels by authors like E.M. Forster (Howards End), Henry James (The Europeans) and Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day) into box-office successes. Famous for his relentless, sometimes outlandish efforts to keep costs low (he was known to steal props and grab journalists as extras), he said, "I remember my college [dean] saying I could sell snowballs to Eskimos...
...about revenue from potentially skittish advertisers: Qatar's Emir underwrites roughly 60% of the government-owned network's estimated $85 million annual budget. But whether the English channel will be able to wrest spots on U.S. cable networks or persuade satellite services to run its programming, not to mention grab an audience, is unclear. Even Arab Americans tend to watch other cable news stations, like Fox News and CNN, instead of al-Jazeera in Arabic, which is available in the U.S. on some satellite systems...