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...movie as a collection of career moves. J. Lo needs a comedy hit to support her principal activity, adorning magazine covers. Fiennes needs to warm his austere British image if he hopes to become a true international star. Wayne Wang, the director, needs to make a movie that might elicit more than wary respect from its audience...
...which option is best for her. Scaring a woman into a decision is terrorization. The campaign does not even suggest a “solution,” such as what an undergraduate who decides not to seek an abortion might do. Instead, the Natalie posters are aimed to elicit guilt. This approach labels women who seek abortions as Baby Killers, instead of giving them options. Stooping so low as to use guilt, not logic, is morally repugnant...
...Bells' crying and moaning might elicit more sympathy if, over the past six years of deregulation, they had delivered on their promises to compete against one another for local service. During that period, they have incurred repeated fines by federal and state regulators for not opening their networks. "They were so busy trying to prevent real competition that they let a monster develop," says Royce Holland, CEO of Dallas-based Allegiance Telecom, which has $517 million in annual sales and is one of the few surviving small, competitive local exchange carriers that have built a solid business selling telecom bundles...
...Faculty committee charged with reviewing the College’s responses to sexual assault held its first forum last night to elicit student comment on the topic...
...playing Alex Trebek for the morning. “The Doves will pick again. But there’s not much of a choice because this is, after all, the army,” and the teams had no categories to choose from except army-related tactics. Correct answers elicit a “boo-ya” from the instructor, and after a slight chiding for unpreparedness, he ends class with a few minutes to spare. The army cadets amble down the street in the drizzle to indoor physical training or “P.T.” They?...