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...Spider-Man 3 spent five weeks shooting in New York City, where the only thing that comes cheap is attitude. Pirates set its cast members adrift in a giant tank in the Bahamas for months. We can only imagine the rum punch bills...
...like Istanbul and Izmir, the AKP, led by the former semipro soccer player and Islamist Erdogan, has its roots in the conservative Central Anatolian heartland, as well as among millions of poorer migrants from those areas. Despite secularists' warnings, a poll conducted last year by a leading Istanbul think tank found that only 8.9% of the population would like to see Turkey's legal system based on Shari'a law, down from 21% in 1999. But many chafe at restrictions imposed on conservative Muslims by the secular state: according to the same poll, only 14% of those surveyed believed that...
...good nickname! Just look at what she did at Radcliffe.”Faust came to the helm of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in January of 2001, just as the school attempted to reshape the remnants of a women’s college into a thriving think tank. At the time, the school faced a budget shortfall and vocal contingent of alumni dissatisfied with the process of merging with Harvard. By mastering a staff cut-back that reduced the workforce by 25 percent and reaching out to graduates, Faust managed to heal many of the institute?...
...definitely a little tired,” said Brown, who threw a season-high 89 pitches. “With that mindset up there, knowing that every pitch could be my last pitch, I wad dipping as deep down into the tank as I could...
...August 1991. While Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was summering in the Crimea, dark forces opposed to Gorbachev and his stop-start reforms tried to stage a coup. Yeltsin's political instincts were still sharp, and he raced to the scene, outside Russia's White House. He climbed atop a tank and urged defiance. The putsch failed. Gorby returned to Moscow, but when he declared his unshaken faith in the Soviet state, Russia was Yeltsin's. By Christmas, the U.S.S.R. was done. An era of change had begun...