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...York Post wrote in mid-July that Rowe had accepted a $4 million payout from the Jackson family to drop her custody pursuit. Rowe's lawyer Eric George vehemently denied the story, and attorneys on both sides of the custody arrangement took pains to point out that money was not part of the latest agreement. "Debbie never sought a dime in these proceedings," George told TIME July 30, declining to elaborate further...
...Combs co-stars in next year's Apatow-produced Get Him to the Greek, in which Jonah Hill has to transport Brand's rock-star character to a gig at the Greek Theater in L.A. "I prepared the script like any audition," Combs says. "When I walked in, they took my script and said, 'You won't even need that...
When I graduated from university in 1982 most of my friends took a year or more to find a suitable job, and my own field, biology, was disastrous. So I went abroad. Back in my homeland after 18 years in three countries on three continents, I have still not reached the material level of my parents, but I have not had a boring life; I've never had to apply for unemployment benefits and my children are happy about their multicultural background. A bad situation creates wonderful chances. Benno ter Kuile, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS...
...addition to getting real-world experience. From 1970 to 1983, the number of colleges and universities offering the programs increased from 200 to 1,000. Northeastern University launched the first one in the U.S. in 1909, although the practice didn't gain traction until the 1960s. Sure, it took an extra year to earn a B.A., but for three months each school year, students worked for companies they were interested in, tried out careers they weren't sure about and earned money to help cover tuition. Internships, similarly, did not develop until the 1960s and remained fairly uncommon at first...
...spent the past three years stockpiling weapons in his rural home, recruiting and training would-be suicide bombers and orchestrating trips to Gaza, Israel, Jordan and Kosovo to scout potential attack sites. Some residents remain unconvinced despite the details of the 14-page indictment. "The government came and took away perfectly good people," one neighbor told the press. "And it's going to take a whole lot of evidence to convince me otherwise." If convicted, Boyd and his sons face life in prison. (Read "Bryant Neal Vinas: An American in Al Qaeda...