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Cambridge civic associations, private citizens and city government all had something to say about the high-profile project. The proposed I-90/Route I interchange over the Charles River, part of the state's $5 billion blueprint for a new central artery highway...
Since the first council debate, the body has endorsed an implementation plan drawn up from a number of the report's recommendations. The blueprint divided the suggestions into six catagories, including steps the dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) can make and those that require significant funding...
...fine screen work, she has never quite made it in Hollywood, a failure of the moguls, who haven't figured out how to channel her charisma. She is not one to wait for other people to do her a favor. So Truth or Dare serves as a kind of blueprint for alert auteurs. She says, in effect, "Here's a Me -- not the real me, not all of it, anyway, but a movie-marketable Madonna -- that you guys can play with. Now get to work and make...
Even so, there was a sense of relief that he was planning something. The blueprint, says California education superintendent Bill Honig, "is comprehensive, long-term and hits the important issues." Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, calls it "a historic turning point in American education" and the boldest education initiative ever to come from the White House. If not a turning point, America 2000 is at least a talking point that forces attention on one of the country's most serious problems. After his lackluster domestic performance to date, Bush intends to push broad educational changes through...
Buying a book also allows the studio to sidestep all that messy artistic independence; the writer and the director have a blueprint they'd better stick to. "Studios don't like to take chances with something that hasn't been validated in another commercial form," says screenwriter-director Paul Schrader, whose sleek, sere new movie, The Comfort of Strangers, was adapted by Harold Pinter from Ian McEwan's novel. "A film like Silence of the Lambs would have never hit the screen had it been original material. It's just too raw. It could be filmed only because...