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...office revenue. Hollywood responded with the jealous petulance you’d expect from any first-born child. Many studios forbade their contracted stars from appearing on television, and the networks—devoid of their own celebrities—were considered little more than a dumping ground (and a source of licensing fees) for stale feature films...
...always immediately evident, but, though disguised, the earth’s magnetism continues to exert itself. In “The Ascent,” a young boy wandering through the woods near his mountain home stumbles upon the scattered remains of a crashed airplane buried in the ground. Inside, he discovers the bodies of two people and removes a wedding ring and a Rolex watch from the corpses. These unearthed items are used by the boy’s parents to buy drugs, illustrating the circuitous ways in which the land exerts itself in the community. More directly...
Ashley Moore, the president of the GSE student government, said that listening to Duncan and Duncan-Andrade’s speeches in the same day reiterated the importance of identifying educational challenges on the ground and addressing those obstacles through national policy reforms...
...because it dominated faceoffs. Overall, the Crimson won 80 percent of its faceoffs, including 15 of 16 in the second and third quarters. Junior Christian Oberbeck was 9-of-12 on faceoffs and Junior Andrew Parchman won seven of his eight draws. Freshman Jeff Molinari led Harvard with five ground balls to go along with two assists, as the Crimson held a 31-20 advantage in securing loose balls...
Chile's death toll could eventually rise above 1,000. But right now, aside from the rescue process, the biggest issue on the ground is the top priority for any earthquake-battered country: getting food, water and medical aid to the hardest-hit zones. Rescuers were hampered in Concepción over the weekend by tear-gas smoke fired at grocery-store looters - an embarrassing scene that prompted Bachelet to arrange for vendors to give free food away...