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Redford, dressed in jeans, a dark button-down shirt, and a tan, suede blazer, looked every bit the college professor—the role he plays in the film—and even imparted a history lesson on American errors during the Vietnam War. He stressed the importance of looking back and analyzing past events in order to prevent the same mistakes from reoccurring...
...parent who has tried to buy tickets for her tour, which sold out in minutes and have fetched more than $1,000 from scalpers. (The reselling--legal in most states--prompted outrage and lawsuits, giving kids a lesson in the American pillars of capitalism and litigation.) Says Debra Rathwell, senior vice president of AEG Live, the tour's promoter: "I've had e-mails from people saying, 'Should I not pay my mortgage this month and go to Hannah Montana?'" With the popularity of Hannah (and franchises including High School Musical, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and Cheetah...
...this be a lesson to both current and former Harvard student fashion hopefuls: the fashion industry is not as inaccessible as you think...
...difficulty, she trusted a bearded Muslim colleague at her university and his veiled wife. God knows I would have given my life to safeguard that trust. While they were with me, her daughters were as precious to me as if they were my own. My friend reaffirmed a lesson I had learned back home: although it is our right, indeed our duty, to be reasonably prudent and careful, the hate shown to us by a few people should never completely stifle the possibility of building bridges with others who sincerely offer us their love and friendship. Asif Iftikhar, LAHORE, PAKISTAN...
Amid the mire of ways, means, and appropriations, a history lesson may seem out of place on the docket of the United States House of Representatives. This month, however, a particularly vivid example has materialized, and rightly so: The United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs has approved and submitted a bill that would recognize that neglected genocide of more than a million Armenian Christians by Ottoman Turks from...