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...each is connected to a mechanical control or electronic servomechanism. At his most complicated, with Rambaldi and up to ten assistants pulling his levers, E.T. can execute 150 separate motions, including wrinkling his nose, furrowing his brow and delicately crooking his long fingers. It was not feasible to cram all the necessary machinery into one model, so Rambaldi built three: one with mechanical controls, Rambaldi holds an early model of E.T.'s skull mostly for large body movements operated with cables from a distance of about 20 feet, another with electronic controls, for subtler articulation, and a third with...
...friends and associates were stunned by the charges and reports that he had left behind brokerage debts totaling $22 million. Said Delmar Cram, principal of Humboldt High School, where Lewellyn was once student body president: "It's shocking as heck. Morally, you would have bet your bottom dollar on him." Cram added that Lewellyn was an "ambitious boy with sights set on the stratosphere." The Iowa criminal investigation division and federal agents are not looking quite that far, but they are checking leads in Costa Rica and Hong Kong...
...into a respected high school or, ultimately, to gain entry into one of the very few prestigious public universities. Students devote almost all their waking hours to studies. In addition to regular classes and half-days on Saturdays, they often spend up to five additional hours at special cram schools called juku (private academies). This cramming is not just for high school students. A recent survey of Tokyo-area youths found that 75% of fourth, fifth- and sixth-graders were enrolled in some sort of juku in order to pass early exam hurdles and get a head start on becoming...
...Because government ministries and top firms all recruit from a handful of universities, having to settle for a low-ranking institution is an almost irreversible disaster. The thousands of students who do not get accepted at the one university of their choice spend a year, sometimes even two, in cram schools preparing to try again. These crammers are called ronin, a word used to describe the masterless, wandering samurai of the 17th and 18th centuries. The ultimate measure of success: acceptance by the 14,000-student Tokyo University (Todai), for which final qualifying exams took place last week. Since...
...first of three days of school, as it happens. The Democratic National Committee has organized a traveling cram course in the new science of politics, and its first three-day stop is Des Moines, chosen for its central geographic location. To show they mean business, the Dems have rather pretentiously called their course a National Training Academy. It is mostly a mix of skull sessions and pep talks in the garish, maroon-walled ballroom of the Hotel Savery. The subsidized tuition is a modest $95, described by Party Political Director Ann Lewis as "low enough to attract, but high enough...