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Imagine a whip-smart economist with a sprawling imagination. Now imagine he's 9 years old and wants to know everything. That is the basic profile of Steven Levitt. A University of Chicago economist, Levitt, 37, is in fact an adult. But he has built his name by asking questions packed with curiosity and devoid of judgment: If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their moms? Did crime in the 1990s go down because the number of abortions in the 1970s went up, or is that just a coincidence? Does parenting actually matter when...
...pretentious, stuffy experts that classical music seems to be associated with are far less desirable to Balliett, who has an offer to join the Civic Orchestra of Chicago upon graduation...
...track will make Harvard “a real center for research in social sciences relevant to medicine,” according to Brandt. Similar social science tracks are currently in place at the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins University, among other medical schools...
...practical approach to her art. Writing with performing opportunities in mind, she says, "is a healthy atmosphere for an artist. When young people come to me for advice, I tell them to compose things for their musician friends to play. Don't sit at home and write for the Chicago Symphony." Until, that is, the Chicago Symphony asks you. --By Michael Walsh
...this future king any time he shows up at your local shopping-mall multiplex cinema," raved Chicago Tribune Film Critic Gene Siskel, who gave Prince Charles four stars for his U.S. performance. As for Diana, John Travolta rated the Princess of Wales 10 out of 10 after a smashing Saturday Night Fever pas de deux that stopped other White House dancers in their tracks. "I tried to do my fanciest footwork with her," said the still glowing actor afterward. "We did well together." Of her much discussed clothes, Couturier Geoffrey Beene observed in the New York Times: "Some...