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...better,” Graves said. “That’s going to take time and a lot of hard work, but we’re absolutely moving in the right direction. Our kids really work very hard, and we’re pushing forward and expect to be faster next weekend.” —Staff writer Courtney D. Skinner can be reached at cskinner@fas.harvard.edu...
...might expect Sarah Silverman, comedian, to be innately aware of a different higher calling, namely, to give Hitchens a rhetorical beatdown. But you would be wrong. "I got all these e-mails from magazines saying, 'Hey, would you write a rebuttal to this?'" she says. "I read it, and I thought, I'm just not offended by this at all. It is absolutely true--if you're going to generalize--that culturally, women don't have to be funny to attract the opposite sex. None of it made me mad, but none of that stuff ever does. It just doesn...
...wardrobe basics that used to be the Gap's bread and butter, consumers now expect higher quality at a bargain price. Banana Republic has had some success filling that niche, promoting classically styled work clothes that can be brightened up for an evening out. Analysts say that brand is the one hot spot in Gap's portfolio, with sales rising 2% last year. "You don't want to waste Banana's profits fixing other parts of the company," says Bruce Greenwald, an economics professor at Columbia Business School...
...high will the waters rise? Scientists debated that question at a conference in Racine, Wis., last month. "We agree we can reasonably expect next year's maximum to be ten inches above this year's," says Charles Collinson, principal geologist at the Illinois State Geological Survey. Projections based on long-term weather patterns offer no comfort. Says Collinson: "We agree we can expect high lake levels for six years and possibly even a decade more." Curtis Larsen, a U.S. Geological Survey researcher who has studied the lakes' ebb and flow dating back 7,000 years, predicts Lake Michigan may ultimately...
...myself. Even now, I suspect I would not have written it if my parents were alive." Broadway Bound is also, in his view, his best play, the one he would like to be remembered by. His family, friends and professional associates all seem to share that opinion. They expect that after decades of acclaim as a craftsman, Neil Simon may finally come to be regarded as an artist. Says John Randolph, who plays Simon's grandfather in Broadway Bound: "It was classic, that opening night in Washington. He spent all these years waiting for some critic to recognize that...