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...animation cels (individual painted frames of a cartoon) on the art market. Cels of the sort the company had capriciously destroyed in the early '70s were selling for upwards of $10,000 a decade later. These works are a prestige staple of the Warner stores. As Chuck Jones, ace director of Warner cartoons, notes, "The French Impressionists were an art form that became a business. Animation is a business that became an art form...
Saturday's games were slugfests characterized by early and prolific scoring. The Crimson took a quick 6-0 lead in the first game on the strength of a three-run first and three-run second. With ace Jamie Irving on the mound pitching lefthanded, the lead seemed safe...
...Houston restaurant manager and the wounding of his wife, devoured a final meal of French toast, sausage, eggs, French fries and six brownies. Then he was led into the baby- blue death chamber and spread-eagled on a gray gurney. He was tied down with white leather straps and ace bandages. As a dozen state officials and reporters watched, Wayne Scott, the prison system's deputy operations chief, appeared in a doorway and intoned, "Warden, you may proceed." A microphone was lowered and the condemned man offered a brief prayer as his last statement. Then the executioner, hidden behind...
...thing the rate of Ph.D. attainment is not the same as the number of Ph.D.s attained. Harvard's report referred to a declining growth rate in new Ph.D.s, and, moreover, the Harvard report cited figures for a five-year period. The facts from ACE can hardly be called well-directed criticism...
While Harvard should continue to work toward hiring more minority faculty members, recent criticism has ignored the complexity of the implementation of Affirmative Action. As a close reading of the released statistics shows, the accusations against Harvard by ACE prove unfounded...