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The subsidies will allow banks to drop loan interest rates from 8.23 to 7.43 percent--which translates to savings of $650 to $3,200 for students--but will cost taxpayers up to $3.6 billion over five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
There is a fine line between sports and stupidity. The X-Games are designed to erase that line, not by showing athletes doing what you can't do, but what you're not willing to do. And while the objective of these sports is not always clear (What does make...
Nor, however, do Kopple or cinematographer Tom Hurwitz use their camera merely to point and shoot. A staggering, insidious myth of documentary filmmaking is that craft is somehow absent, that the lack of actors and scripts translates to films that make themselves. Moreover, because of the twice-Oscared Kopple's...
Referring to the anniversary of "Al-Nakbeh," which translates as "the Palestinian catastrophe," Ashrawi told the audience, "We are no longer the faceless, nameless Palestinians."
Seafood risotto was laughably large and formally antithetical to any preconceived notions about the nature of risotto. Literally dozens of steamed mussels (it must be admitted that it will take a while before I can stomach another mussel), clams, and, impossibly enough, more calamari drown a sizeable platter. A spicier...