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...helping to wring a few more dollars out of the old movies, the refurbishment has also served as pre-preproduction for a new Star Wars movie that is scheduled to start shooting this fall for a 1999 release, the first of the long-awaited trilogy of prequels to the extant films...
...these questions seem trivial in comparison to confusion caused by a discovery we've made in recent viewings of the movies on video: in the entire extant Star Wars trilogy--so far as we have been able to discern--Chewbacca is the only wookie...
...Gilbert Kaplan as just another rich New Yorker with a hobby he can afford. Kaplan, 55, former publisher of Institutional Investor magazine, is mad for Mahler. Through his private Kaplan Foundation, formed a decade ago, he has immersed himself in the composer's life and music, tracking down every extant photograph of Mahler for a book and issuing a facsimile of Mahler's score of the Symphony No. 2, better known as the "Resurrection" Symphony--which just happens to be the object of Kaplan's special passion...
According to the Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, ethnic studies comprises Afro-American Studies, American Latino Studies, Asian American Studies, Native American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies. The purpose of these disciplines is not only "to broaden the extant canon of knowledge to include experiences and contributions of groups historically excluded from such consideration," but more significantly, to create "an approach striving towards multiple positioning of race/class/gender/sexuality" and "[to reinterpret] existing paradigms through which the meaning of the human experience is apprehended." We agree with the first of these two tenets. American...
...gets lifetime employment anymore, not even at companies like Hewlett-Packard, a visionary $31.5 billion high-tech firm that makes just about every good-guy list extant. Instead, HP employs a system of redeployment for "excessed" workers. They can hunt for other positions within the company for 90 days, fully paid and free of job responsibilities. Usually the company will make another job offer. But if an employee decides to leave, he or she still receives a generous severance package...