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...short blurb about her highlighted social cause. Pasricha was chosen for her efforts campaigning against youth smoking. Glamour donates $2,500 to a charity of each finalist’s choice, and gives the finalists themselves a cash prize and a trip to New York, according to a press release from the magazine. Pasricha—pictured in the magazine next to the headline “She’s an Antismoking Crusader”—was chosen from thousands of applicants. Glamour selected Pasricha for her global movement, which began in 2001 when she organized...
...Moore took his cargo of the ailing - the rescue workers, Donna and Larry Smith and a few others featured in the film - to Havana, where they got excellent, imaginative, sympathetic care from a local clinic. (At least one of the patients returned on her own, and told the Associated Press she received the same level of treatment...
...still a blue-collar kid from Flint, Michigan - the car town that became a poor town when GM closed many of its plants. A classic entertainer and a professional mensch, he knows how to couch a daunting issue in human terms. In Sicko, as he said at a Cannes press conference today, the larger questions are: "Who are we? What has become of us? Where is our soul...
...spring and last could hardly be greater: in February 2006, while high school seniors were gearing up to pick their future school, Harvard’s president resigned after a protracted battle with Faculty of Arts and Sciences professors that made headlines around the world; this February, the national press largely cast Harvard in a rosy glow after the University selected its first woman president in its 371-year history. And yet, the admissions yield figures for 2007 and 2006 were separated by just six-tenths of a percent...
...answer is, 'He didn't know much and that's why he didn't tell us,'" said Representative John Spratt, a senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, "then the follow-up question is, 'Why didn't he know much?'" When Rumsfeld fielded questions at a press conference early last week, he still hadn't read the entire Taguba report either...