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Whenever possible I hung out with Robert Levy,who lived downstairs from me, a sure bet forcigarettes and good company. Robert was a transferfrom Oberlin and a die-hard New Yorker, whosestriking looks and blase attitude suggested bothintense individuality and worldliness. He appearedoddly out of step in the tepid drama of NorthHouse, as if he was there only because he'dauditioned for the wrong play. He was also asmiserable as I back then. With Robert, there wasno need for bravado. Eventually, though, Robertmoved off-campus, and I managed to transfer toLeverett House...
While gynecologists acknowledge that there are risks to estrogen therapy, they tend to emphasize the pluses. "The benefits of HRT will outweigh the risks for most women," says Dr. William Andrews, former president of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. "Eight times as many women die of heart attacks as die of breast cancer...
...building and splashed gasoline on the hostages-numbering by some estimates close to 2,000. Ratcheting up the war of nerves, Shamil Basayev, a top rebel commander and leader of the operation, told journalists at a hastily improvised press conference: "It does not matter to us when we die. If necessary, we will shoot the hostages...
Every movie, it now seems, is a sequel of every other movie. Writers pick over the carcasses of hit films and try to extract the golden elements for their own projects. Why, it's Die Hard in a minivan, or Pretty Woman but with Lassie and Beethoven, or Terms of Endearment only she gets the Ebola virus. It's filming by numbers-last year's box-office grosses. The uniform look and feel of recent films suggest that the mad scientists in A Clockwork Orange had it wrong. You don't make a viewer a zombie by force-feeding...
...Force must seriously re-evaluate its safety rules for air-show activities. Too many good pilots have been killed over the years practicing for them. A great many accidents could be prevented by prohibiting dangerous maneuvers for air shows. Men and women of the military should not have to die for our enjoyment. BRENDAN D. GABIS Toronto...