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...female Army medic is a charming—if lewd—extension of his story. As antiquated a genre as it might be, the sheer number of noir elements employed is enough to pull even the most fickle reader through the slim volume. The novel’s success isn’t one shining moment of stylistic joy—the aforementioned passage may even be out of place in “Nobody Move.” It’s that when the $2.3 million dollars that kicks around between the characters (you already knew there...
...Methodists that free will can help you get to heaven.) Confused about how Hindus believe the world was created? (So are they; the religion has no single canon and there are many, sometimes conflicting, origin stories.) Why are so many celebrities drawn to Scientology? (A key teaching says personal success can help overcome the human condition...
...notes on boxofficeguru.com, "the number of $20M+ openers rose from 11 last year to 18 this year while the amount of films crossing the $100M mark skyrocketed from just one in 2008 to six in the current year." Pandya points out that the summer biggies should benefit from the success of off-season fare, since moviegoers get bombarded with previews of coming attractions, the previews often tailored to the genre of the picture playing. No warm-weather film is going to tiptoe into theaters; if a major-studio movie is opening in the next few months, you'll have known...
...time of 7:58, while the B and C fours took first and second in the next race. The only loss for Radcliffe came in the novice eight event, where the crew came in second place, four seconds behind Columbia. Radcliffe’s lightweight team had similar success on the Charles Saturday, soundly beating MIT in the varsity and second varsity events to claim the first-ever Linda Muri Cup. The cup, named after Harvard freshman lightweight men’s coach Linda Murri, who herself has won three world championships and 18 national championships, honored...
...National Assessment of Educational Progress reading assessment, only a third of 12th-grade public-school students in rural areas scored at or above proficient, consistent with the national average. Rural dropout rates are higher than in the suburbs and lower than in cities.On one hand, the success of public education in any setting is largely the result of quantitative factors that influence schools across regions. Discrepancies in these values manifest themselves in educational inequalities and, over time, have contributed largely to the achievement gap the United States struggles to overcome today. Yet less tangible factors also fundamentally determine the trajectory...