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...last Americanist to be promoted from ajunior position in the History Department wasWinthrop Professor of History Stephan A.Thernstrom, who was offered tenure more than 20years ago. But Gienapp said yesterday thatYanowski's appointment won't be a dead-end...
Back in the late 1950s, Stuart Ressler was one of the eager young scientists trying to crack the genetic code of the DNA molecule. In the mid-'80s, he works the night shift for a computer billing outfit in Brooklyn. What brought Ressler to this dead-end job? That is only one of the questions posed and answered by this demanding, dazzling novel. Also on display are two love stories, two intertwined narratives, vast erudition and a white-knuckled, suspense-filled investigation into the meaning of life...
Back in the late 1950s, Stuart Ressler was one of the eager young scientists trying to crack the genetic code of the DNA molecule. In the mid-'80s, he works the night shift for a computer billing outfit in Brooklyn. What brought Ressler to this dead-end job? That is only one of the questions posed and answered by this demanding, dazzling novel. Also on display are two love stories, two intertwined narratives, vast erudition and a white-knuckled, suspense-filled investigation into the meaning of life...
...fraud and unnecessary practice. We know where the problems lie. Doing something about them is at the very least our moral duty and is profoundly in our self- interest as a nation. Depriving millions of Americans of health care is wrong. Wasting billions of precious medical dollars on paperwork, dead-end procedures and outright theft is stupid. Undermining the health of our workers and children for lack of political gumption is suicidal. It is time to make the hard choices...
This movie respects the viewer, and what pleasures that affords! In the first scene, look closely as Billy (Loren Dean, a find) stares at an older gangster, and imagine in their facial resemblance the kind of dead-end foot soldier the boy could become in 10 years, if he were not as lucky as he proves to be. Catch the cool stare of society dame Drew Preston (Nicole Kidman), the captive, then mistress, of Dutch (Hoffman); her eyes don't move from his as he submits her face to the indignity of a first caress. Listen to the whisper...