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...TIME: In Flags of Our Fathers, the young servicemen depicted in the famous flag-raising photograph are sent on a bond tour to drum up money and popularity for the war. It's a pretty unsavory look at how the war was sold to the American public. Do you see a parallel to any modern-day wars here...
...Seules anticipates a new slate of sponsors on the heels of a world tour filmed for an upcoming reality-TV series that has been sold to numerous networks around the world. The team is already sponsored by headphone manufacturer Sennheiser, which pays the women to wear the headphones in competition, to listen in on the sounds of digital slaughter...
EMMANUEL LIGGONS, 12, of Harlem, about Prince Charles, who played basketball with Liggons and his classmates during a visit to New York City with wife Camilla, part of a U.S. tour that also included a stop at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia...
...Serena Williams, 25, her third Australian Open championship and eighth Grand Slam event, in a stunning display of force that promises to reinvigorate the women's tour; in a definitive rout of No. 1--ranked Maria Sharapova in straight sets; after injuries and fashion pursuits had sidelined her for more than a year; in Melbourne. Motivated, she said, by the memory of her murdered older half sister Yetunde--whose name she invoked after every net change--Williams became the lowest-ranked woman to win a Grand Slam singles trophy in 29 years and jumped in the world rankings, from...
...stops on Mankoff's tour of duty this week was Bronxville High School in New York, an environmentally friendly school whose student faculty legislature (SFL) created a Global Warming Day based on An Inconvenient Truth. The event drew some of the top scientists around the country and one of the most infamous global warming deniers, Richard Lindzen, a professor of meteorology at MIT. "We are trying to introduce students to this idea that we don't talk about in school," said Alex Tarantino, a senior at Bronxville High School and secretary of the SFL. "We should be talking about...