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Rushdie's dashing appearance, feminism, and complex literary personae would seem to make for an interesting romantic life. And Rushdie is famous for his womanizing. He has been married four times, most recently to supermodel and Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi, from 2004 until 2007, when she ended the marriage. Since then, he has been linked to the Indian model Riya Sen and actress Pia Glenn. Rushdie’s father was a University of Cambridge-trained lawyer turned businessman, and Rushdie himself studied history at King’s College, Cambridge. Now Rushdie has fallen for the American...
...just doesn’t do angry very well—she sounds forced when she yells. And doesn’t her outburst seem really out of character...
...state's Teacher Quality initiative. "You need to know who's coming into teaching, how they were prepared and where they were prepared. Then you can make a link between who taught a kid, who trained the teacher and the overall efficacy of that teacher." Although such measures may seem a prelude to punitive measures on ed schools, "we aren't seeking to close people down," says Noell. "That's not the point." Rather, the ideal situation would be to have schools use the feedback to improve the quality of their instruction. The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, for example...
...autopilot, the flight plan's programmed in, one pilot says hello and goodbye to a controller every 10 to 15 minutes, and there's not a lot else going on," says Voss, who added that the crew's claim to be talking as they overflew Minneapolis "doesn't seem very credible." U.S. airlines should consider allowing a technique common in some parts of Europe called "controlled cockpit rest," Voss says, during which one pilot can take a brief nap to stay alert after notifying the rest of the crew. (Read "Surviving Crashes: How Airlines Prepare for the Worst...
...early to judge if Johnson was right. In 1984, when French far right politician Jean Marie Le Pen made a high-profile TV debut, his Front National party received a substantial boost in the polls. Griffin's shambling performance didn't on the face of it seem likely to gain him many converts and may have cost the BNP future votes. Some viewers may have been startled by the revelation that Griffin had once shared a platform with Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, and won't have been reassured by Griffin's risible statement that the KKK is "almost...