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...Invasion: The major U.S. networks may look more like BBC America as content from abroad fills the void. The U.K. version of The Office, with Ricky Gervais, is an obvious substitute for Steve Carell's NBC version. And Footballers' Wives would do for ABC's Desperate Housewives in a pinch...
...When undergraduates pay their $75 student activities fee each year, they do so under the assumption that the money will be spent on their activities, not saved for a rainy day. And even if the UC were within its rights to pinch pennies, it’s difficult to imagine what exactly a $63,791.21 rainy day would look like. Perhaps, the UC’s bean-counters will argue, this month’s showdown with University Hall is exactly the sort of cataclysm that savings ought to provide...
Southern evangelical preachers aren't prepared when they meet Burns Strider. They hear "director of faith-based operations for Hillary Clinton" and expect a pinch-nosed Yankee, probably of the Unitarian variety, who looks for Job in the New Testament. Then in walks Strider, 41, a former Southern Baptist missionary who calls everyone brother or sister and can tell you exactly when he decided to "give my heart to Jesus." His latest mission: spreading the good news about Clinton to religious audiences...
...American colleges supply chef-cooked meals, platinum pens, and designer teaching? Following recent stories in the media, an uninformed person (or a foreigner like me) might believe it to be so. While I look around for a pillow in my bare Harvard dorm, let me try to add a pinch of fact to the current debate about the institutions of higher learning and their allegedly absurd amenities...
...your local mortgage broker. Clearly, that has consequences for growth. Everyone knows the U.S. housing market continues to plummet, but the rise in interest rates that we've seen lately will crimp growth - reducing investment globally. Fewer businesses will expand, start up or open new factories - and that will pinch profits going forward, which, in turn, will crimp investments in new businesses or factories even more...