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...just not offended by this at all. It is absolutely true--if you're going to generalize--that culturally, women don't have to be funny to attract the opposite sex. None of it made me mad, but none of that stuff ever does. It just doesn't affect...
Despite the atmosphere of normality in Geneva, there were signs that the Iran-contra affair could indeed affect superpower relations. Coming on top of Reagan's decision to violate the unratified SALT II arms treaty, the scandal has evidently prompted the Kremlin to allow Soviet commentators to attack Reagan personally, something that was avoided in the recent past. Georgi Arbatov, head of the Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, called the scandal "a truly cinematic story out of second-rate Hollywood films, in which Ronald Reagan has been featured for years...
...importance to him is clearly not a matter of money: Simon, whose net worth is estimated at a minimum of $30 million, can afford the luxury of being the majority backer of his plays, which nowadays cost around $800,000 to mount. Nor will the show's fate much affect his power: his record is so strong that his name appears above the title on many of his plays and movies, a rare honor for a playwright and an all but unprecedented one for a screenwriter who is not also a director. Virtually anything Simon writes will be produced?...
...past year and a half, YIVO kept the letters' existence quiet while exploring the legal issues they raised-such as how they might affect matters of copyright, a major hurdle to their release since the Anne Frank legacy is guarded by various stakeholders, including the Anne Frank Foundation. Late Wednesday YIVO announced that it will declassify and release the documents at a Feb. 14 press conference...
...among the top legislative priorities for the new Democrats-led Congress in its first 100 legislative hours. The bill must still be approved by the Senate and signed by the president before it can become law. Though the legislation promises to have a wide impact nationally, it will affect Harvard students far less than it will the average college student. Compared to national averages, Harvard students accumulate only about half of the national median student debt, said Sally C. Donahue, Harvard’s director of financial aid. And the median debt has declined over the past decade as more...