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Under the threat of extinction, professors are now giving their lectures more zeal, as well as sell, than they did in the past. Many a full professor who left his undergraduates mostly to wan and preoccupied teaching assistants is back in the classroom going all out. If the crunch on colleges could at last result in something like "teach or perish," instead of publish or perish, the uses of economic adversity might prove sweet indeed for American education...
...novel is cinematic vomit--in a word, a gross-out. Or maybe two words. Friedkin, whose hit-'em-over the head style should confine him to urban crime thrillers, shoves his disgusting images into our faces in a manner reminiscent of Linda Blair shoving a crucifix into her crotch. Crunch, crunch. Blatty's novel needed: a) someone less pretentious than Blatty to write the screenplay, and b) a director with more of a sense of lyricism and wit, a modern James Whale, or a Hitchcock, or even a DePalma. Friedkin and Blatty successfully induce nausea, not terror--unless...
What then is the tax rebellion? Yankelovich finds three meanings. First, it reflects a personal crunch. Last year more people felt their income would grow in the following year or two than believed it would decline. This year the proportions are the reverse. So part of the revolt is a perception by the typical citizen that "my taxes and living costs are rising faster than my income...
Five years after the crunch, most oil firms are as robust as ever
While the figures are staggering, there are still a few ways at least to soften the college tuition crunch. The College Board notes that almost any family, even one with a gross income in excess of $35,000 a year, might be eligible for some combination of grants or loans, depending on the number of children in college, among other financial considerations...