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...knew a few basic laws of the genre - don't go anywhere alone, and please leave your vehicle before it's sent into the killer car wash - but you have to give Eisner points for knowing where all the bodies are buried, and how to unearth them suddenly for maximum effect. (Read an interview with The Crazies director Breck Eisner...
...figure-skating club [more than] doubled, from 30% to 80%," says Hyun Ok Chung, deputy manager of Mokdong Ice Rink, one of the most prestigious skating clubs in Seoul. "Hundreds of students who apply for figure skating are on the waiting list because we already reached the maximum number. We plan to renovate the ice rink to accommodate more students." The rink is also planning to institute one-day workshops to address the sheer volume of interest in figure skating. (See pictures of Olympic fans...
...House communications director Dan Pfeiffer declared, "We have made no determination which process to move forward," but then said, "The President expects and believes the American people deserve an up or down vote on health reform," adding that the President's fixes to the Senate bill were designed "with maximum flexibility to ensure we can get an up or down vote in case the opposition decides to take the extraordinary step of filibustering health reform...
Greece's task is massive. Its deficit is the biggest in the euro zone and four times larger than the 3% maximum permitted for members of the single currency. Frugal Germany, the E.U.'s traditional paymaster, was understandably reluctant to commit to underwrite any rescue pledge before securing a cast-iron commitment from Athens that it would put its finances in order. Earlier in the day, Otmar Issing, the German former chief economist of the European Central Bank, said the Greeks enjoyed "one of the most luxurious pensions systems in the world" and that it was unreasonable to expect German...
Stuart Clutterbuck, a guidance counselor at Bergen County Academies in N.J., said that though he recommends applying to a maximum of ten schools, he did not discourage students who applied to as many as 18 this year...