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DIED. KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI, 54, master Polish filmmaker; after heart-bypass surgery; in Warsaw. An Oscar nominee last year for Red, he made daunting, haunting studies of passion and alienation on the grand scale, as in his 10-hour Decalogue, which dramatizes the Ten Commandments in a Warsaw high-rise, and his Three Colors trilogy (Blue, White, Red), in which troubled souls in France, Poland and Switzerland come to terms with a dark obsession. In 1994 Kieslowski said he was quitting films; he just wanted "to sit alone in a room and smoke." He left behind some of the most elegant...
Some economics concentrators said allowing honors students to bypass the thesis requirement would help add continuity to their program...
...January leave was Epps' second for medical reasons this year. The first, in September, followed a heart bypass surgery...
...veto and render him irrelevant. The Republicans' latest offer--embracing the Blue Dogs' Medicare and Medicaid numbers--signaled that the G.O.P. leaders were serious about that strategy. "We've learned a lot about pressure and leverage this year," says Condit. But the goal, he adds, is not to bypass the President. "If we can create some movement from the bottom up, it may be that we can nudge them all out of a ditch...
...despite the initial enthusiasm, will still be a tough sell. It runs slower than conventional languages, and the software libraries that streamline a programmer's task are still being written for Java. But Java offers would-be software moguls something no other programming environment can: a way to completely bypass the software-industry middlemen. "These wonderfully brilliant Marc Andreessens will stay up all night eating Twinkies, drinking Jolt and writing in Java," predicts Sun's McNealy. "Then they'll put something out on the Web, and boom!--word of mouth!" The trick, which Microsoft has mastered but Sun and Netscape...