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...just A Beautiful Mind or Proof either. In Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Kumar wins over his long-lost girlfriend when she's about to marry his arch-rival, by reciting the poem that she had tried to get him to read aloud when they first met (and made out) in a library...
...Harvard’s total puts it far behind its biggest rival, Yale, which came out on top among national universities with approximately $40 million in grants for 115 projects...
...role as Premier has influence over state broadcaster RAI - the country's printed press has its own conflicts of interest. The Fiat holding group has controlling stakes in Milan daily Corriere della Sera and Turin-based La Stampa. Daily La Repubblica is owned by Carlo De Benedetti, a business rival of Berlusconi's with interests in energy, automobiles and health care. Il Sole 24 Ore, the country's financial paper, is owned by Italy's main industrial lobby. "Italian entrepreneurs tend to depend largely on Italian politics," says Ricardo Franco Levi, an opposition parliamentarian and the former editor in chief...
While some gang members say they are virtual prisoners of their poor neighborhoods, unable to leave the slums because of police crackdowns and threats from rival gangs, gang culture continues to spread. It has moved well beyond its original bases in the impoverished suburbs of the capital like Apopa and Soyapango. It has now taken root in San Miguel, the country's second-largest city, and the port of La Union, which they now utilize for trafficking drugs abroad. Nowadays, gangs threaten businesses large and small, demanding kickbacks for not shutting them down. They are even said to force...
Votes are still being counted in the presidential elections, with Karzai, a Pashtun, winning more than 45%, ahead of his rival, ex-Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, who is supported by the Tajiks and other non-Pasthun minorities. But allegations of fraud and vote-rigging have stirred up the ethnic tensions that are always bubbling under the surface of Afghan society. With Laghmani gone, this source explained, "There's nobody who can stop the excesses of the Tajiks running the security services." (Read "Afghanistan: Will the U.S. Settle for Karzai...