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...students are encouraged to take classes at a local community college. Watterson discovered last year that she would be forced to deny many of her students the opportunity to take college courses because the state would no longer subsidize the costs for them. For one student she described, this meant a rapid downward spiral—one week the teenager was a happy and successful student, and the next she was on a bus back to Mexico. Thanks to an aggressive fundraising campaign, Watterson has managed to raise enough money to pay for these subsidies for her affected students...
...These accidental campaign allusions, and the old-jokes meant to keep senior members of the audience in the loop, soon subside, as the film starts parading its strong story sense and its plethora of heart. There's an old-fashioned suspense sequence, in which Horton tries to navigate a rickety rope bridge, that's as well choreographed as any action scene from an Indiana Jones movie. So is the climax, with the Who-villagers shouting in desperate chorus to save both their world and their benefactor's life. I won't say it's emotionally wrenching, but the man sitting...
...such as Universal Studios and USA Network. The company's formidable media and telecom presence in Europe, meanwhile, allowed Messier to tantalize people with talk about how they'd soon be downloading music, sending photos and even watching video on mobile devices. Convergence of delivery and content, he promised, meant companies like his could offer it all. "Vivendi had the correct vision: the conversion of broadband and wireless to bring any content to anyone, anywhere, anytime, on any handset," Messier says. "That is all reality now. Anyone who saw me as a foolish guy in 2001 is quiet today...
...smoking-ban announcement coincided with the opening of a new exhibit examining the reprehensible marketing tactics tobacco companies used in the 1920s to 1950s. Advertisements featured everything from smiling doctors enjoying a “healthy” smoke to pseudo-scientific medical facts meant to allay rising health concerns and avoid losing customers...
...system against the individual. More importantly, it’s about how America’s various wars—the war on drugs, the war on the middle class, the war on crime, and, yes, the war in Iraq—are hurting the very people they were meant to help...