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...couple had dated on-and-off until Thursday, April 10, 2003—the day before the stabbing—when Guzman said she broke up with him. She said that Colono was “calm” about the breakup, presenting a slight setback to the defense, which wanted to show that Colono had reason to be upset and instigate the fight with Pring-Wilson...
Murray said on-campus recruiting fell after the internet bubble burst and declined sharply after Sept. 11, 2001. It remained at a low in the 2002-2003 academic year and made a slight recovery during last year’s recruiting season. And though Murray said she has no statistics available, she added that this year’s fully booked recruiting schedule speaks for itself...
Schwartzman’s character Albert is a post-puberty Max Fischer, with longer hair, a scraggly beard and none of the charm. Schwartzman opens the film by shouting a stream of obscenities; in person, he makes somewhat less of an impression. He balances his slight, thin build on a couch, sipping a glass of water and at one point sucking on a lemon. Schwartzman’s conversation—when he gets a word in edgewise amidst Russell’s freewheeling monologues—swings wildly from dull stories from the Huckabees set to an extended riff...
...other more subtle key rested in a slight change of strategy...
...doom and gloom surrounding growing U.S. health-care costs continued last week, when a much watched survey of company health-insurance plans revealed a double-digit increase in family premiums for the fourth year in a row. Despite a slight pullback in the rate of growth, premiums over the past year jumped 11.2%, outpacing inflation and growth in wages by about five times. According to the survey, conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust, that hike was equally borne by companies and employees, whose share of the costs rose an average 9.8% for singles...