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Belgium may appear to outsiders as a good example of ethnic power sharing, but the last time the French-speaking Walloons supplied the country's Prime Minister was in 1978. So, in Sunday's national elections, they are itching to smash the Flemish grip on the top job. A victory by the leading French-speaking candidate, Elio di Rupo, would make history not only because of his language, but as Europe's first openly gay Prime Minister. As leader of the Socialist Party (PS) in Wallonia - and also the region's minister-president - Di Rupo, 55, is the heavyweight...
...over a class’s relevance and quality. The prestige and educational value that the Core was supposed to guarantee has been forgotten, and undergraduate education has suffered, turning into a curriculum that instead trains students for little more than cocktail party conversations.The SCCP’s iron grip on Core credit also reduced the educational standard of Core classes. With no competition from departmental courses, which are not permitted to count for credit, many Core classes have been allowed to become irrelevant—like Science B-57, “Dinosaurs And Their Relatives?...
...Vancouver--went to his first local audition and got hired on NBC's Freaks and Geeks. And now, having just turned 25, he is the lead in one of this summer's biggest romantic movies. By the end of next year, he will have a Will Ferrell--size grip on comedy films, having appeared in or written five of them. If things go well for him at the box office, Los Angeles restaurants may have to deal with an infestation of waiters who are dumpy Canadians with Jewfros...
...just like a blanket overlying all of these reasons, the primary reason for complicity is fear," Brooks adds. U.S. commanders hope that a constant presence of Americans in neighborhoods such as Ghazaliya, rather than simply driving through, will make it harder for insurgents to maintain their grip on the population. Says Brooks, "I'm going to specifically target the enemy's intimidation campaign...
...picture, stripped of caption and context, can be made to mean just about anything anyone wants to it to mean - that's why Sean McCormack, press secretary to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, barred photographers from recording the obligatory grip-and-grin at her meeting last week with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem on the fringes of the Iraqi "neighbor's conference" in Egypt...