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...SPELLING won't attend the Beverly Hills, 90210 10-year high school--reunion show, airing on Fox May 11, because "she's moved on," her publicist says. Some press reports, however, have said the daughter of series creator Aaron Spelling is angry that Fox won't give her a pilot and bitter toward tempestuous former co-star Shannen Doherty, who is appearing on the program. The reunion will include interviews with Jason Priestley, Luke Perry, Doherty and others talking about their auditions and "what the show has meant for establishing their careers as successful actors," according to a Fox press...
...popular and victorious Fighter Pilot-and-Chief not able to get his own party in line for the war dividend he really wants-a?$726 billion tax cut centered around an elimination of the tax on dividends? Well, the moderates, despite approving of Bush's handling of the war, don't support his plan for reviving the economy and despite the political benefit Bush won from his carrier display, moderates worry there are no coat-tails on a flight suit. "The Moderates are emboldened," says a White House adviser. "They're from states where there are cutbacks and where...
Twelve years ago, during the first Gulf War, Marine pilot Clifford Acree was tortured by Saddam Hussein's henchmen for 47 days. He was subjected to mock executions and systematically starved until he began eating the scabs off his own body. Along with 16 other POWs, Acree filed suit to claim compensation from Iraq's $1.7 billion in frozen assets. But they may never see the money. On March 20, President Bush confiscated Iraq's assets "to assist the Iraqi people and for the reconstruction of Iraq." Bush's order made an exception for cases in which the courts...
...program began with 171 students in 1999, and currently enrolls a range of pupils, including dining hall employees and subcontracted cleaning workers. Kolenik, who has taught English as a second language at institutions from Roxbury to Vietnam, began Bridge as a pilot program at the Harvard Faculty Club. Employees were having trouble reading notes their guests had left for them, she says; requests for new light bulbs, an extra pillow or an undisturbed desk were either ignored or misunderstood by the housekeepers due to their poor English...
Pressure from unions during the PSLM sit-in transformed the Bridge Program from a pilot program to a university-wide undertaking. It now boasts nine different class levels, from beginning literacy classes which work on phonics and spelling to an academic prep class designed to aid employees in getting the equivalent of a high school diploma. Classes meet twice a week for two hours, and run on Harvard’s semester schedule...