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Star quality, or startling beauty, can be an affront to the rest of us, stirring envy and rancor. That may be what drives Barbara (Judi Dench), a drab, old teacher at a London school, to latch and leech onto a new instructor, the stunning, vulnerable, morally floundering Sheba (Cate Blanchett). Sad meets bad--or is it mad?--in this knowing, brutal comedy. Dench has maybe her best-ever movie role: a queen bee who deals in the honey of treachery...
...France, too, has eased some restrictions. All would do well to study the details of how Britain and Ireland coped. While granting admission to all workers, both nations restricted migrants' access to welfare, thus pre-empting claims that folks were coming as "welfare tourists" to leech off the system. At the same time, most of the new migrants are single, which means that more people are paying taxes into the system than are able to draw out of it. Their official status means they can go home at any time - unlike illegal workers, who often lack the documentation to travel...
...Kerr said.After Harvard notched its sixth goal in the 58th minute of play—Fucito’s second goal—Brown coach Mike Noonan removed his starting goalie, David Semenza. Before Saturday’s match-up, Semenza’s replacement against Harvard, Jarrett Leech, had started the majority of the Bears games.But against a Crimson offense that had eight shots in its 2-1 win against Fairfield a week ago, Semenza was chosen and could not stop the nine chances Harvard peppered the net with on Saturday.“We are creating...
...president, called him an “ogichidaa”—the word for “leader” in the language of the Ojibwe tribe, to which she and Meat’s family belong. Meat had been spending the semester at his home at Leech Lake Reservation—“Tha Rez,” he called it on his Facebook.com profile—and had been planning to return to Leverett House in the fall to write his economics thesis on Native American reservation cash flows. A RUN-IN WITH A GANG...
Meat, a past NAHC president and a leader in the campus Native American community, had been taking time off, but was hoping to study cash flows on his own Leech Lake Ojibwe Reservation—where cash typically streams...