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...Fast Food from Afar Re Joel Stein's "The Hungry American" [April 9]: I doubt that the Filipino Jollibee franchises in the U.S. are really meant to cater to the American palate. They are simply a response to the Filipinos in the U.S. who have grown tired of eating bland burgers and fried chicken in American fast-food restaurants. It may be hard to admit, but these mimeographed restaurants you referred to actually have something better tasting to offer. If the hungry American likes it too, then I've proved my point. Shinar Pablo-Lumahan Norwalk, California...
...some classmates in his playwriting class. They had grown alarmed at what they heard when it was his turn to present his plays for peer review. The works were violent, obsessive and often focused on sexual abuse. One especially profane play titled Mr. Brownstone told of a student being repeatedly sodomized by a teacher. Another was about a 13-year-old who accuses his stepfather of abusing him. The protagonist's mother at one point brandishes a chainsaw. The play ends with the stepfather crushing the boy to death...
Soybean. A dietary staple in Asia for 2,000 years, soybeans today are increasingly grown for oil and animal feed. The U.S. leads the world in soybean and corn production, but it would have to turn 100% of both crops into fuel in order to offset just 11% of U.S. on-road fuel consumption...
...that voters have simply grown tired of Howard, who was first elected in March 1996. But while Howard runs the country, Rudd runs around the country: laying bricks, painting Easter bunnies, answering trivia questions about Britney. What exactly isn't the Labor leader doing out there? Now that broad directions are being sketched out, where does Rudd plan to take the country if he wins the election? Some see shades of Bill Clinton, others detect an echo of British New Labour's Third Way. At a Canberra truck depot last month, a reporter asked Rudd: "Are you doing a Tony...
...humanities and social sciences would be taken care of also. We need to grow too.” FAS currently faces a budget shortfall, in part a result of a hiring surge that has significantly boosted its size. The Faculty began expanding in 1999, and since then has grown from 615 to 723—the largest surge in FAS appointments since the 1960s. The majority of those appointments took place within the humanities and the social sciences. Knowles said he now wants to focus the second round of hiring in the sciences. Knowles said he now wants to focus...