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...intelligence agencies. In 2003, Blackwater landed its first truly high-profile contract: guarding Ambassador L. Paul Bremer in Iraq, at the cost of $21 million in 11 months. Since June 2004, Blackwater has been paid more than $320 million out of a $1 billion, five-year State Department budget for the Worldwide Personal Protective Service, which protects U.S. officials and some foreign officials in conflict zones...
...That's not bad for a picture made on a frugal $65 million budget and shot on a bare Montreal soundstage, with the backgrounds digitally green-screened in later, in the manner of Robert Rodriguez's version of the Miller Sin City. It's also not bad for a movie that's not good. For all its battle-scene gore, 300 is at heart a talky civics lesson. It's dead-serious, stentorian and, when it's not hacking muscular fighters to bits, pretty stodgy...
...more than 600 theaters - possibly the largest booking of that time, when films typically opened in a few big-city theaters, then slowly spread out to neighborhood bijous. Hercules was a hit, and Levine - who famously said, "You can fool all the people all the time, if the... [advertising] budget is big enough" - had established the viability of the wide movie release...
...Easier Travel The Oresund Bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö; the Channel Tunnel; high-speed rail links snaking out from France - all have done their bit to knit the Continent closer together than ever before. But perhaps above all it is the growth of budget airlines - stimulated by regulations that came into force in 1997, allowing an airline from one member state to operate a route in another - that has made easy travel around Europe available...
...tale of extracurriculars on a shoestring budget is all too familiar for most Harvard students: hectic days and nights of hastily planned rose sales and grant applications, all with hopes of raising the couple hundred dollars needed to keep a group alive...