Word: program
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Nine years after leading fellow students against tanks in Tiananmen Square, Chinese dissident Wang Dan has returned to school--this time as a student in Harvard Summer School's English Language Program...
...Friday the President was sounding more bareknuckled, denouncing Republican proposals for a stripped-down bill as "a charade." The Senators, he said, "voted not to implement a program that can save a million lives a year. It was a vote against our children and for the tobacco lobby. It's as simple at that." The goal for him now is to inflict the maximum political pain on the Republicans without totally killing any prospect of a deal. But a political campaign for a new bill requires focus, which is something this White House has largely lacked during the second term...
Bankrolled by a Seattle multimedia firm, Smoke Signals was shot on a $1.7 million budget after being developed at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, which sponsors a program for fledgling Native American filmmakers. Though he had been approached by producers eager to adapt his works to the screen, Alexie bided his time until he found an Indian director with respect for the material. Enter Chris Eyre, a 28-year-old Cheyenne-Arapaho director of shorts and documentaries, who read Alexie's book and cold-called him for a meeting. Their film, later acquired by Miramax for close to $3 million...
Private schools like Spectrum had good financial reason to exclude religion. Under Milwaukee's pioneering school-voucher program, poor families got state-funded vouchers for tuition at public or private schools. The catch was that the vouchers could not be used at religious schools, on the ground that it would violate the principle of church-state separation...
...parents didn't do it, who did?" With those words, Louise Woodward came out swinging in her battle with the Eappen family over the death of Baby Matthew. In what she promises will be her only interview, Woodward used the BBC's 'Panorama' program to cast herself as the Eappen's scapegoat: "There was the whole feeling that somebody had to pay and that somebody had to be me," she said. She accused the police officers who questioned her of misconstruing her testimony as a confession...