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...surprise hit A Walk to Remember, and Aaliyah, in Queen of the Damned--the film the R.-and-B. star made just before her death--in a trifecta of teen queens turned screen queens. Girl power is back in the 'plexes, and this time it sings. Can the new batch of thrushes have the impact of Judy Garland, Betty Hutton, Lena Horne, Doris Day, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Bette Midler, Madonna, Whitney Houston and Jennifer Lopez? (Not to mention a couple of crooners named Crosby and Sinatra...
There is, however, a creative solution to the problem of expensive coursepacks. Under copyright law, students may take a batch of copyrighted material and make a single copy, or a small number of copies, for personal...
...sourcebook is just that: a batch of single copies of published works meant for individual convenience. It is not an attempt to mass-market a copyrighted work in a for-profit manner in circumvention of established law and ethics. However, by the vagaries of our organization and a particular reading of the law, our printing services, and therefore our students, are being asked to pay costs that we should not have to pay. Barring a change in legislation or jurisprudence, then, we must strive for creative, effective and legal solutions to lift these crushing and senseless financial burdens from...
...Unless their gut gets confused, in which case investors behave like they did Friday - single digits up, single digits down - as if they were waiting for someone else to pipe up and tell them what, exactly, the latest batch of numbers means for the economy, the recession and the recovery. This was one of the lower-wattage economic Fridays - no University of Michigan report, no monthly unemployment. Just business inventories, industrial production and capacity utilization, and of course the CPI inflation gauge, which no one seems to worry much about anymore...
These moves have been spurred by a batch of government reports showing fewer jobless claims, better retail sales and an uptick in consumer confidence. A feeling of progress in the war on terrorism is also helping. But a setback in that war or in any future economic readings could cause traders to rethink their budding optimism...