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...obvious equation is that the less time parents have to spend on their children, the more money they spend, on dance lessons and soccer uniforms and the tutors hired for $250 an hour to help prepare for the SATs. This year, helping make Christmas shopping a little less arduous for stressed-out parents, Toys "R" Us is offering a computerized registry so children can roam the aisles making their selections and the store can spit out a list for Santa...
...money back? Aren't the studios in business to turn a profit? Normally, yes. But nothing about Titanic is normal. After an arduous shoot during which Mechanic fought bitterly with Cameron and even more bitterly with Paramount Pictures, Fox's partner on the film, Mechanic admits to spending a smidgen less than $200 million. (That's without the additional millions it will cost to market it.) The picture will have to gross about $350 million for Fox to break even...
Early on, the press scented trouble. Stories began to appear about budget overruns; about the schedule, which eventually stretched from 138 to 160 days; about the arduous working conditions, in which crew members complained of sweatshop-style practices that sometimes had them working as long as two weeks without a break; about Cameron's screaming tirades; and about a still unsolved food-poisoning incident in which chowder served to the cast and crew was laced with the drug PCP. Meanwhile, Fox and Paramount quarreled publicly over the release date. Finally, they settled on Dec. 19--after the early rush...
Concluding an often-arduous season with pride, the Harvard field hockey team (7-10, 3-4 Ivy) defeated Brown, 3-1, on Saturday...
...where the American people go, its Government must surely follow. Thus Tuesday a panel convened by the National Institutes of Health announced, after an arduous study, that ?surprise! ? acupuncture may actually work...