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...absence of women professors or instructors was strange. Occasionally a very bright Radcliffe doctoral student would be a section woman, and a highly accomplished woman Ph.D. would be an instructor. I had two section women, one in economics and one in psychology, and a woman tutor. In co-ed sections, we were rarely called on and we rarely offered an opinion. I didn't think there was anything strange about that, either...
...drama that has been aired live around the world for nearly 30 years, since the day Truman was born. Everyone else in town, including Meryl (Laura Linney) and Marlon (Noah Emmerich), is an actor, improvising from a loose scenario devised by the project's creator, Christof (Ed Harris). The Truman Show, as the program is called, is TV's most elaborate prank: Candid Camera on an epochal scale and at a muted pitch. Christof has created the largest man-made structure in history (the huge domed studio that is Seahaven), with a working town, a roiling sea and hundreds...
...Phil Hartman did a great Frank Sinatra; he did a great Ed McMahon. He did a great Bill Clinton. But the most common character was one we could only call Phil Hartman: smarmy, oily, eminently superficial. We assumed that was all there was to know about Hartman, that he made us chuckle and do our own impressions of him. That was apparently the way Hartman wanted it. Now we'll never know...
...call it what you want," says Paul Harman, a Georgia accountant who complained to the FCC after his company noticed the charge. "It's just another form of taxation. The consumer pays in the end." Lawmakers have begun to hear similar complaints. At a hearing in February, Congressman Ed Bryant, a Tennessee Republican, waved a copy of a telephone bill sent him by a constituent who was confused and angry over the $4 surcharge his company was having to pay. "How shall I explain this tax to my constituent?" Bryant demanded. "Do I tell him I voted to place that...
...DRIVER'S ED: HOW TO BUY A CAR ON THE INTERNET...