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...wonderful example of this is a new television show in Egypt called "Salaam Sesame." It adapts the idea of the American "Sesame Street" into a children's program mixing the use of Muppets and live characters. But it has modified the characters to promote social messages tailored towards contemporary Egypt. Set in a working-class suburb of Cairo, it features a similar assortment of human characters as the U.S. version, but they are altered to represent local types--the green grocer, the civil servant, the craftsman and the local schoolteacher...
...cellmate and best friend in prison. The two were supposed to be released together, but Nick was killed a few days before his parole in a cafeteria food fight. It was Nick who was supposed to hook up with Ashley (they met each other through a prison pen pal program), and it was Nick who was a former employee at the casino. Rudy took on Nick's identity to win the unsuspecting Ashley, but along with the girl came a whole world of trouble...
Yale's governing body voted nearly unanimously to grant the school's African and African American studies program the status of a full-fledged academic department this week...
Just two weeks ago, the program's chair, Hazel V. Carby, resigned, saying Yale President Richard Levin had disparaged the program by comparing it unfavorably with Harvard's Afro-American studies department. She also said Yale's refusal to recognize the program as a department was a factor in her decision to resign...
...Harvard Pilgrim has 1.1 million members. Reilly said he sees the program as an asset to the state--and said the suit is well worth taxpayers' money...