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...News and World Report released its rankings of the Most Popular Colleges earlier this month. Harvard was named the second most popular university, trailing Brigham Young University for the top slot...
...Deseret News cited BYU's affiliation with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as the major factor in its popularity: the school draws students who want to participate in Mormon culture in college and who are attracted by the discounted tuition of $2,145 per semester for church members. BYU students quoted in the article said that they wouldn't want to attend Harvard—one said the tough academics would have made her "feel so insecure" about herself, and another said BYU extracurriculars are clearly better because he hasn't "seen Harvard on ESPN...
Florida voters knew Republican Governor Charlie Crist would go on the attack sooner or later this year to try to salvage his floundering campaign for the U.S. Senate. But they surely had no idea that his rival's grooming habits would become an issue. Last week on Fox News, Crist blasted his surging opponent in the August Republican primary election, former Florida house speaker Marco Rubio, for having used a GOP-issued American Express card for personal purchases, including $133.75 spent at a deluxe Miami barbershop. Rubio is "trying to pawn himself off as a fiscal conservative," Crist said...
Ryszard Kapuscinski was considered to be one of the most fearless journalists of his time. As the only foreign correspondent for PAP, the Polish news agency, in the 1960s and '70s, he covered some 27 coups and revolutions around the world, survived firing squads in Africa and befriended the likes of Che Guevara. His reporting formed the basis for widely acclaimed books such as The Emperor, about the life of the eccentric Ethiopian leader Haile Selassie; Shah of Shahs, about the fall of the Iranian ruler Reza Pahlavi; and Imperium, on the last days of the Soviet Union. Salman Rushdie...
...last years of his life, Kapuscinski himself openly acknowledged that his work was not straight news reporting. "I aim to create such a way of writing which is not possible to categorize and which I call for my own use 'a new text,' " he said in an interview with Poland's Dziennik newspaper. "I simply want to write a text, which to my best conviction and experience is the closest and most faithful to what surrounds me. It is an experiment, and I do not care what category it will fall into." For his many fans, it may not matter...