Word: premieres
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...Film Forum, New York City's premier repertory house, is providing a lavish reminder that the six did have productive careers beyond their 20s by presenting Pythonalot, a two-week retrospective of the canon films, plus Cleese's A Fish Called Wanda and Gilliam's always-worth-reseeing Jabberwocky, Time Bandits and Brazil. True to the absurdist spirit of Python, a disclaimer on the Film Forum webpage reads: "SPAM? IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF HORMEL FOODS CORP. PYTHON AND ALOT ADAPTED FROM MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT LOGO. USED WITH PERMISSION...
...Landstuhl, Germany. They then joined my friends and sister Leslie Flesch in lobbying to get acting Secretary of the Army Les Brownlee to admit me to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, making me the first reporter wounded in combat known to have received such treatment at the premier hospital reserved for soldiers...
...Harvard Business School graduate touched off a new round of speculation that Romney was burnishing his conservative credentials ahead of a possible run for president in 2008. But they also underscored what has long been a marquee role for Harvard on the national scene—a premier punching bag for politicians of all persuasions...
...black studies concentration, Princeton is only now following in its Cambridge rival’s footsteps.The New Jersey school is establishing a new Center for African American Studies and expanding its faculty in the field from 5 to 11—challenging Harvard’s position as the premier hub of black studies. On Monday, Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman announced plans for the university to expand its African American studies program and contribute to the “quest to achieve racial equality and understand the impact of race on the life and institutions of the United States...
...Countering the critics, China's Premier Wen Jiabao insisted that Beijing "will ensure the freedom and the rights of the foreign news media and foreign financial-information agencies." But alarm bells are nonetheless sounding in foreign boardrooms. In the past few months, Beijing has issued several regulations and is drafting more that appear to be aimed at limiting the ability of overseas firms to do business in China. Last week, China's stock-market regulator temporarily banned investment by foreign brokerages in domestic securities firms, citing the need to allow the local industry to consolidate so that Chinese firms would...