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...Rumors have mounted for months that their relationship was on the rocks and that Madonna was having a liaison with New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez - allegations made by Rodriguez's estranged wife but denied by the pair...
Nowhere is such skepticism more pronounced than in the U.K., where the nation's "special relationship" with the U.S. has failed to insulate American studies from public opinion. According to ucas, the body that handles applications to British universities, the number of people wanting to major in the subject has plunged from 1,086 a decade ago to just 381 last year. "Students see us as apologists for America," says Ian Bell, a professor of American literature at Keele University, where enrollment in the American-studies department has halved since Bush took office. "They don't want to be branded...
...during his freshman year (his illness forced him to scale back slightly on his classes this fall), Friedman worked at a cancer research lab at the Medical School, wrote for the Harvard Science review, and, on a whim, joined the Hapkido club with Schaaf. Friedman also maintained a close relationship with a girlfriend who goes to school in his home state of Connecticut. “I didn’t know until afterwards what the survival rate was [for his type of cancer]—it was always ‘there’s this new treatment...
...While the relationship between the Taliban and al-Qaeda has frayed over the years, bin Laden's group is still a principal financial supporter, and as such would have input on major decisions that the Taliban make. Needless to say, it will be impossible for any negotiations to take place unless the Taliban renounce all ties with the terrorist group. That's an unlikely scenario, says Zaeef. "I am not sure the Taliban will say to al-Qaeda, 'Leave the country and don't support us,' because there is no one else funding the Taliban, so there...
...write this book? It's a tenet of linguistics these days that the relationship between the sound of a word and its meaning is arbitrary and I've always thought that was just crazy. I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word "wobble"? You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word "wince," you wince. How about that...