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The article offers news briefs related to the U.S. entertainment industries as of March 2015. Actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar will star in National Broadcasting Co. Inc.'s television program "People Are Talking." Actor Bruce Willis will make his debut in the Broadway theatrical production "Misery." American film producer Steve Tisch has donated 10 million dollars to the film school of Tel Aviv University in Israel.

This section offers news briefs on higher education. Tel Aviv University in Israel is charging foreign students rents that are almost double the amount paid by local students. The Macquarie University's student union endorses the LifeChoice Macquarie, an anti-abortion movement in Australia. Nine universities in the U.S. have partnered to help Burma rebuild its higher education sector.

Comments on the campaign of the U.S. government to monitor, report and punish those individuals and institutions within academia particularly in the Middle Eastern studies whose ideas are considered threat to national security. Incidents that prompted the campaign; Claims of Martin Kramer, professor in Arab history and politics at Tel Aviv University, against the Middle East studies in the U.S.; Primary purpose of the Web site Campus Watch established in September 2002; Provisions of the International Studies in Higher Education Act, HR 3077 passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on October 21, 2003.