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TIME is read not only in the U.S. but also by millions of people overseas. So, how does one adapt a quintessentially American newsmagazine for the rest of the world? The process is both Herculean and alchemical, involving such minutiae as the transmutation of impenetrable Americanisms and the replacement of American measures with metric, as well as the production of entire sections and cover stories that speak specifically to Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada and Australia...
...team must prepare its bevy of younger players for fierce, agressive college squash. One of the youngest, freshman Jordanna Fraiberg, must adapt to the psychological and physical intensity of college ball. As the 1989-90 U.S. and Canadian junior national champion, the top-seeded Fraiberg was raised in an intense squash environment. Her older brother, Jeremy, is one of the top two players on the men's team...
...Fraiberg's specialty has always been softball squash, and she will need to adapt to the hardball game this winter. And while remaining freshmen and former top seeds in high school, Heather Sullivan and Polly Butler, do not lack ability, they have never played the contact squash that Princeton plays, or the psychological game that Yale loves...
...this caravan of horrors persuasive by suggesting that tragedy was the destination his travelers sought. His prose got under the skin of . hapless Port and Kit and revealed their itch for romantic catastrophe. But movies are as different from novels as show is from tell. The director who would adapt this treacherous tale must find resources other than interior monologues and wan philosophizing. Bertolucci knew this when, after conquering China and Hollywood with The Last Emperor, he and co-screenwriter Mark Peploe approached The Sheltering Sky. "Instead of using language and psychology, I wanted to be more physical," he says...
Harvard's latest drive for "internationalization" of the curriculum seeks to adapt the university to the changing world. But is the solution to add more courses on Great Treaties Signed by Great...