Word: depths
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...Nobody plays the cello like Lance Morrow," our former managing editor Henry Grunwald once remarked, and he wasn't talking about music. He was, instead, referring to the sonority and depth of tone in Morrow's prose. This week Morrow shows his virtuosic stamina by writing a second cover story in a row. His examination of the ethical dilemma over human transplants follows his exploration of evil last week. After finishing that piece late at night, Lance came perilously close to the subject matter of his story. He was bicycling home through Manhattan's Central Park. "I've taken...
...passion is any indication, Yeltsin should prevail. A recent item in the Personals column of a Moscow newspaper suggested the depth of feeling for him among average Russians. A "charming" woman wanted to meet a "man under 35 for the purpose of setting up a family." She set only one other condition: "Persons who do not share the political views of Yeltsin need not apply...
...committee also met with six faculty groups and nine student groups and conducted more than 350 in-depth interviews with faculty, senior administrators, alumni, presidents and faculty at other universities, foundation executives and even the chair of another school's presidential search committee...
...federal auditors have not regularly kept track of higher education accounts. For many schools, including Harvard, in-depth audits are few and far between...
Unfortunately, many of the copycats deliver hokey, improbable scenarios with the depth of a shampoo commercial. The Grim Reaper and the fires of hell have been slickly supplanted by a blissful feel-good death in the form of reincarnation. Dying is depicted as a transitory state, at worst a move to a new neighborhood. "All these ghosts are young, attractive people," observes Scott Frank, writer of the forthcoming Dead Again, starring Andy Garcia. "Who wants to see old ghosts?" One notable exception will be The Rapture, an austere film, starring Mimi Rogers as a woman who murders her daughter...