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Although this is Bates' first year of doing the show, she is well ahead of the rest of the group. The petite, youthful-looking blond studied tap and ballet all through her school years. She choreographed her college drill team in Arkansas and moved on to a brief stint in modeling while studying for her master's degree in early-childhood education at the University of Central Arkansas. Her stage work stopped when she began teaching kindergarten. But her dance training and modeling experience make her the exception rather than the rule in this production; most of the other cast...
...said Saddam's expectation of victory showed he was "living in another world," and predicted his troops would yield within three or four weeks. While few others were daring (or imprudent) enough to offer a precise timetable, many military and civilian officials described the potential conflict as lopsided and brief. British Defense Minister Tom King told the House of Commons in December, "It will be short, sharp and quick, and the casualties on the allied side will be kept to a minimum...
Aside from the brief flashes of optimism, all parties involved in the research are quick to dampen unbounded enthusiasm. Thus far, the Harvard research has concentrated solely on breast cancer, a relatively "easy" type of tumor for clinical study...
Even if the recession is relatively brief, many workers will be hard pressed to find jobs anytime soon. Well before the U.S. slipped into recession last fall, business was downshifting in the wake of the Reagan expansion. Corporations were eliminating slices of middle management and the layers of clerical and professional staff supporting them. Says Roland Stichweh, a senior partner at the Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby benefits-consulting firm: "Organizations under stress are finding that they must abandon their traditional sense of loyalty to these employees...
Instead, the courses consist of students meeting twice a week in small sections, each time preparing a brief paper about the day's assigned reading. Two section leaders--a graduate student and an undergraduate who has already taken the course--lead discussions and comment on the papers, but they don't grade them. There are no grades here, except for a final evaluation at the end of the term...