Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jonathan Harr's bestseller is a difficult book to adapt because it's not a hero-conquers-all story. The main character is a flawed hero--John Travolta plays real-life lawyer Jan Schlictmann with fiery intensity and a stubborn arrogance. A Civil Action is a difficult movie to like precisely because we must watch his disintegration. But the film rewards your patience. It takes the standard legal thriller and in it finds something more substantial: a human drama defined by gray rather than black and white...
Hundreds of Boston-area college students have received this e-mail from a modern version of Yenta the matchmaker. It is sent by DateSite.com, an on-line dating service started by a group of Winthrop sophomores that promises to spark action in the usually languid Harvard dating scene...
...chooses to file a contract action, Berkowitz said he would seek invalidation of the decision not to grant him tenure...
According to Berkowitz's attorney, Matthew Feinberg of the Boston firm Feinberg & Kamholtz, future legal action would be based on the charge that Harvard failed to follow its own procedural standards in evaluating Berkowitz for the tenure appointment...
Emily Y. Yang '01, co-president of the Asian American Association, agreed that "something tangible," like buying furniture for the center, would be helpful in prodding the administration into action...