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PROSPERO'S BOOKS. Shakespeare illustrated by Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover). Not the British director's best film but certainly his most: two chockablock hours of Sir John Gielgud intoning The Tempest while surrounded by naked babes and boys. It's as if God lived in the Playboy Mansion. The true version of this coffee-table film is the accompanying book: script, photos and drawings...
...Larry Cook owns 1,000 acres of rich soil in Iowa. He is a tough, autocratic man, well suited to his unforgiving job, "a man willing to work all the time who's trained his children to work the same way." The Cook place is a model modern establishment with all the signs of a good farm: "clean fields, neatly painted buildings, breakfast at six, no debts, no standing water." Life is a round of chores -- the endless regimen of meals, the canning frenzies, the tireless pursuit of new and fancier equipment...
...lotto millionaires are still longer than the risk of being struck by lightning. About 90 million players will ring up $20.6 billion in ticket sales this year. So far, 34 states have joined the lottery gold rush, raking in vital revenues for depleted coffers. Charles Clotfelter and Philip Cook, professors of public policy and economics at Duke University, challenge the games of chance as regressive, inefficient means of raising revenue and suggest they prey upon minorities and the poor. The professors also wonder whether the lotteries' get-rich-quick appeal undermines the American work ethic. Arnie Wexler, director...
...Boston cafeteria cook William Curry, 37, winning the Massachusetts lottery last year turned out to be his unluckiest bet. Three weeks after winning, he dropped dead of a heart attack, brought on by ceaseless hounding once his $3.6 million win was made public. Curry's is an extreme case, but the business offers, investment schemes and heartrending pleas for help that rain down on winners are a source of widespread worry. A number of states offer basic guidance courses in surviving good luck. They usually counsel winners to get a good tax accountant, an unlisted telephone number and a veneer...
Meanwhile, Princeton's neighbor to the north, Cook College of Rutgers University, has tapped into a different idea: encouraging the use of kegs. Students who want to host campus parties must attend a seminar on responsible drinking and register a keg with the school before serving the brew. Rutgers officials acknowledge that the policy was drawn up only after concluding that it was virtually impossible to keep track of the cans and bottles students had secretly stashed away. Under the new restrictions, says Lee Schneider, the dean in charge of monitoring the plan, "students will act responsibly and take responsibility...