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...quarter, following a 0.4% decline the previous period. The UK revealed a 0.5% slide in GNP over the past three months, while Spain and Italy showed similar contractions. The one small bright spot on the map was France's unexpected 0.14% growth - fueled, just as surprisingly, by a 0.2% rise in consumer spending, and a 0.3% jump in investment outlays by businesses...
...around 30 million viewers per season. All of this began to change in 2004, though, as the show’s viewer ranking slipped out of the top 15 and its average viewership was halved. This may be the result of NBC’s general slide, the rise of internet TV, or simply just a drop in quality. But these may merely be secondary factors, since FOX’s “House” premiered in 2004.For those who aren’t familiar with the show, it follows Dr. Gregory House (played by Hugh Laurie...
...lacking on Harvard’s campus.“We are looking at concerns of internationality and interdisciplinarity,” he says. “Art is now a universal language.”Finally, Bhabha emphasizes the new importance of technology in the arts, citing the rise of Adobe Photoshop and other computer media-editing software. As such, the Task Force has also been considering how best to integrate such emergent advances into the curriculum, Bhabha says.Bhabha’s comments are only a glimpse into the much more detailed report that the Task Force will...
...because it was hard to square with Obama himself. The description "old Chicago pol" conjures a stout machine boss wearing a porkpie hat and chomping on a stogie - not a whip-thin black guy trying to quit smoking. Nor was the Chicago machine an ingredient in Obama's political rise. "He didn't rely on the machine for his success," says David Moberg, who has covered Chicago politics closely as a longtime writer for alternative magazine In These Times. "When he ran for the state senate, Congress and the U.S. Senate, he was opposed by the party organization...
...city of Kanpur in August as one, in which two people associated with a Hindu right-wing organization were killed while making explosives. In June, the Hindu nationalist political party Shiv Sena got much flak for calling for the creation of Hindu "suicide squads". "Islamic terrorism is on the rise in India and in order to counter Islamic terrorism, we should match it with Hindu terrorism," an unsigned editorial in the Shiv Sena's official newspaper said. Hindu right-wing organizations have been blamed for virulent anti-Christian violence in two states in recent months, and many critics would label...