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This summer, Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah, became not only the longest-running undefeated champion in the history of Jeopardy! but also the show's greatest money winner. Going into Jeopardy!'s annual late-summer hiatus, Jennings had won 38 consecutive games and $1,321,660, and delivered a much welcomed ratings boost for the program. When the show resumes after Labor Day, people will be wondering: What's next for Ken Jennings...
...after a three-year hiatus, Nair had a second coming. Scraping together $1.2 million from investors in India, France, Germany and Italy, she returned to what she knew best?family and India?and filmed Monsoon Wedding in New Delhi in the summer of 2000. Working with a handheld camera, she captured four scenes a day, completing the entire shoot in just one month?despite losing five days' worth of film to an airport X-ray machine. Giddily enjoyable but unsparing in its treatment of darker subjects like infidelity and pedophilia, Monsoon Wedding was the budget hit of 2001, topping...
When former University President Neil L. Rudenstine first appeared on the cover of a national magazine, Newsweek, it was for taking a three-month hiatus in 1994 to recover from exhaustion...
...went to Shearman after a 38 year hiatus with the thought that I would practice law and have time to do other things,” he says...
...marriage. Libertarian conservatives, for instance, might be inclined to support the legalization of marijuana, while social conservatives might adamantly oppose it. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page argues for more legal immigration to bring about economic growth, while The National Review argues vehemently for a hiatus on all immigration—so that immigrants already here can be culturally assimilated. Disparities within the conservative position run the gamut, and to ignore these distinctions is simply narrow-minded...