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...wishes to people with chronic ailments who aren't terminally ill. Dreamers tend to come from low-income families that have little money for extras after illness has depleted whatever savings they had. When approved, a case gets assigned to one of 75 volunteer "dream captains," who organize the project and coax companies into donating products and services. Foundation staff members purchase services such as hotel stays when needed to fulfill a dream...
...expert puts it, but some wonder whether Ban has the steel to play a leading role on the international stage. "This will be the first time he's ever been his own boss," says Peter Beck, the Seoul-based director of the International Crisis Group's North East Asia Project. "Can he really assert himself and stand up to governments that act contrary to the U.N.?" His allies say that it's a mistake to assume that Ban is as diffident as he might sometimes appear. "It's a typical Oriental style," says Yoon Young Kwan, Ban's predecessor...
...Spec and the Columbia community for much of the week, and the administration may have to move beyond strongly worded missives. In the meantime, someone has to figure this out: Is it Minuteman or Minutemen? (Or, perhaps, Two-Pump Chump?) The groups's official name is the Minuteman Project, singular, but their troops are collectively known as the Minutemen, plural. The Spec has used both, with no clear rhyme or reason, and it's time to standardize for the sake of style mavens everywhere...
...play a leading role on the international stage--a question that's been sharpened by North Korea's latest provocation. "This will be the first time he's ever been his own boss," says Peter Beck, the Seoul-based director of the International Crisis Group's Northeast Asia project. "Can he really assert himself and stand up to governments that act contrary to the U.N.?" His allies say that it's a mistake to assume that Ban is as diffident as he might sometimes appear. "It's a typical Oriental style," says Yoon Young Kwan, Ban's predecessor as South...
...Federal investigators have found that a $75 million project to build the largest police academy in Iraq has been so badly mismanaged that it is a health risk to recruits. It's all in the hilarious new movie Police Academy 8: Doing Asbestos We Can." AMY POEHLER...