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...Someone had to break this monopoly, and it wasn't a movie tough guy or tart. Olivia de Havilland, yet another Warners contract artist, had specialized in doe-eyed darlings, notably as Melanie in Gone With the Wind- again, a loan-out, this time to the Selznick Studio. And again, she wanted to expand her range. When Warners kept casting her in all-sugar, no-spice roles, de Havilland balked and was suspended. She then challenged the studio in court, arguing that since the period of suspension was routinely added to the length of the contract, an actor...
...Americans have introduced an artistic controversy: Is a doe-eyed Nancy Drew, who debuted last April, really manga? Japanese manga resembles a cinematic storyboard with less happening in each panel than in U.S. comics. There are more motion lines; simple, expressive facial lines; and stories that depict "ordinary people in extraordinary situations dealing with the weirdest things you've ever thought of," according to Tokyopop...
...defense attorney for Pete Solis, the 19-year-old Texas community college student charged with sexually assaulting the girl dubbed "Julie Doe" in her lawsuit, told TIME that if the Texas courts accept the premise that MySpace is liable because the two met there, then his client also has a claim, since the alleged victim falsely portrayed herself on the webiste as 15 years...
...percent of FAFSA applications in the 2000-2001 school year left the question blank—and had their applications processed nevertheless due to bureaucratic “confusion and time constraints,” according to the SSDP report. The Bush administration’s Department of Education (DOE), however, has since refused to process any applications that fail to answer the question.DEALING AT HARVARDHarvard’s recent alleged drug offenders, however, won’t have to worry about their aid, even if they are convicted—as long as they are not expelled, they...
...civil war in Liberia is about hatred: personal hatred based on political rivalry, brutally used to turn tribe against tribe. Charles Taylor, head of the rebel National Patriotic Liberation Front, and President Samuel Doe, the harsh ruler of the country's 2.5 million people for the past decade, loathe each other. Says Taylor: 'The only good Doe is a dead Doe' ... Few soldiers or rebels have died in battle, but thousands of civilians have perished ... Last week, in an effort to halt the tribal carnage, 3,000 troops of a five-nation West African peacekeeping force began...