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...When love actually triumphs (after the long journey in which Gable's newspaperman has almost prudishly refused to take advantage of Ellie's ardor and has declined her father's reward of $10,000), it is the victory of an ordinary American's honor over the opulent phoniness of too much money and of gaudily dishonest media...
...hotels. As you head west, the terrain becomes more desolate and the Chinese influence fades. Since most tours are organized out of Hohhot, you have to travel long distances to reach the most spectacular western deserts. But the dramatic landscape along the way is its own reward...
...tropes, but also of the administration itself: Despite all caveats to the contrary offered every step of the way, much of what Washington has done since September 11 has made getting bin Laden a major objective of the exercise - from leaflets dropped all over Afghanistan offering a $25 million reward for his capture and Pentagon updates over his likely whereabouts to the White House releasing last week's tape to convince the Arab world of his guilt on what many anticipated was the eve of his demise at Tora Bora...
...part of the review, Pedersen and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz will contact “those concentrations that have recommended more than 10 percent of their graduating seniors over the past five years for highest honors to remind them that highest honors recommendations are meant to reward superlative work,” according to a letter to the Faculty circulated at yesterday’s meeting...
Responding to the criticism and police refusals, Ashcroft offered last Thursday to give three-year S visas (known by immigration lawyers as "snitch visas") as a reward for useful information provided by interviewees or anybody else, here or abroad, who knows anything about terrorist plots. At least he knows that when you're not good at sweet talk, a real sweetener always works...