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...Well, they're probably keen to play that sort of a role, but they don't have more than 30,000 armed men. And U.S. planners seem to be moving away from giving them that sort of role. They'd love to be trained and armed by the U.S. because that would strengthen their position in the post-Saddam scenario...
...Stardom proves no cinch for Tracy. The school authorities declare that our heroine's hairdo is a "hair-don't" and exile her to the special ed class. She and Link Larkin, her "common-law boyfriend," are ostracized from their keen teen group. Her best friend, Penny Pingleton, is denounced as a "checkerboard chick" for dating a black student. True to its early-60s milieu, the film climaxes in demonstrations, violent disputes, jail time for the civil-rights marchers. And (this is a fantasy, folks) they danced happily ever after...
...official China News Service. The charges are unclear, but Yang, a flower-seed tycoon worth an estimated $900 million, recently acknowledged publicly that he owed the Chinese government some $1.2 million in taxes. Tax evasion by China's fat cats is a national scandal, and Beijing is keen to nail some high-profile deadbeats...
That said, Harvard rightly goes out of its way to choose students whom it knows will not waste the wonderful resources at their disposal here. Lewis himself is keen to stress the positive effects of competitiveness, which he says “drives excellence.” But excellence and the need to excel are far from the same thing. Grasping this fundamental dichotomy would rectify any number of problems at Harvard, ranging from rampant grade inflation to the stagnant social scene...
...Well, they're probably keen to play that sort of a role, but they don't have more than 30,000 armed men. And U.S. planners seem to be moving away from giving them that sort of role. They'd love to be trained and armed by the U.S. because that would strengthen their position in the post-Saddam scenario...