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...Aside from their direct revenue, Dulwich's schools in China provide the London school with free advertising abroad. While the overall number of foreign students enrolling in Britain's public schools has leveled off, Dulwich has watched its mainland Chinese student population more than double since it set up shop in Shanghai and Beijing in 2003 and 2004, respectively. The key has been the quality of education. While Dulwich's College in Shanghai recruits its faculty independently of its London parent, the majority of its teachers are British. It also follows the English curriculum. "There's a real connection...
...colleges, predictably, focus on computer education. They tempt young recruits with the prospect of rewards that would have been inconceivable before the outsourcing boom. A few outsourcing companies, including tech giant Infosys, have opened shop in town. A flood of new money has arrived, thanks to outsourcing jobs, surging real estate prices and expatriate remittances. As a result, many locals have become middle-class, upper-middle-class or even rich. One ad for "premium luxury apartments" promises, IF YOU'RE IN LIMELIGHT, THIS SUITS YOU THE BEST. AND IF YOU'RE NOT, THIS PUTS YOU IN LIMELIGHT...
Vince Camden is 36, single, broad shouldered and thin, like a martini glass. He has made a new life for himself in Spokane, Wash.--where he has been stashed by the FBI's witness-protection program--running a doughnut shop and selling weed and credit-card numbers on the side. His contact in the Spokane Police Department assures him that the mobsters he ratted out back East are all dead or dying and don't care about him anymore. So why is there a contract killer in town looking to put a bullet through his eye? Camden will eventually...
...when he moved from Manhattan to Fort Lauderdale a few years ago, he couldn't help mentioning to his new boyfriend that Intercoastal (the word for Florida's inland waterway) is an anagram for Altercation. In the movie, we see veteran constructor Merl Reagle driving past a Dunkin' Donuts shop and saying, "Put the D at the end, you get Unkind Donuts, Which I've had a few of in my day." Spotting a Noah's Ark, he says, "You switch the S and the H around, that's 'No! A shark!'" From ark to shark, Genesis to Mi>Jaws...
...Black Halloween animal (CAT or BAT) French 101 word (LUI or OUI) Provider of support, for short (IRA or BRA) Sewing shop purchase (YARN or YARD) Short writings (BITS or BIOS) Trumpet (BOAST or BLAST) Much-debated political inits...