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...Dreamgirls ran for 1,521 performances, closing in Aug. 1985, but its influence spread far beyond the confines of the Majestic Theatre. The show sent the clearest signal yet that blacks could anchor a Broadway hit. Its defiant anthem, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," has been sung countless times over the years in the Amateur Night competitions at Harlem's Apollo Theatre, as well as on American Idol...
With this surgical sojourn, his first trip outside the U.S., Miller joined the swelling ranks of medical tourists. As word has spread about the high-quality care and cut-rate surgery available in such countries as India, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, a growing stream of uninsured and underinsured Americans are boarding planes not for the typical face-lift or tummy tuck but for discount hip replacements and sophisticated heart surgeries. Bumrungrad alone, according to CEO Curtis Schroeder, saw its stream of American patients climb to 55,000 last year, a 30% rise. Three-quarters of them flew in from...
...really cool because I sent an e-mail to see if people would help, and word just got around. People I knew who were students and people I didn’t know came with staples and masking tape to help.” Teng has been trying to spread the word by sending e-mails across Harvard student group and house lists. “I’m really grateful for the way that people have gotten the word out,” she said. —Staff writer Reed B. Rayman can be reached at rrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
...parliamentary wrangling that followed, Tringali says that the bill came to a 50-50 vote in the Campus Life Committee meeting before the CLC chair stepped in and dashed the Currier seniors’ attempt to spread the word about Johnson’s deficiencies...
...While Gaddafi indicates that geopolitical shifts like the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Palestinian decision to negotiate with Israel and the increasing spread of Islamic extremism forced him to change course, he believes that it was his atomic bomb program that enabled him to deal with the West from a position of strength. Even today, he concedes nothing in Libya's support for terrorism, bragging about how revolutionaries he aided like Nelson Mandela and Yasser Arafat became welcome visitors to the White House. Libya's regret, he says, is that some of the groups committed the error of killing...