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Historical Studies B-61, "The Warren Court," packed students into Emerson 105 this week. Although there are two other Historical Studies B cores offered this term, for some reason The Warren Court has attracted a gargantuan number. There was standing room only and the hallway outside was crammed with students attempting to hear--all this even before the first lecture had begun. And some think students dislike the Core...
...show, produced by Don Mischer, performed by a cast of 5,500 and watched by 3 billion viewers worldwide, mixed Southern with Greek, pyrotechnics with Pindar, avant-garde with antebellum, pickup trucks with riverboats, the gargantuan with the precious. Like Atlanta, it desperately wanted to be liked by everybody, and it succeeded. The Call to the Nations, which opened the show, recalled both the French-Canadian Cirque du Soleil, which was a creative consultant, as well as a Brazilian samba school. Yet the two songs were written by two distinctly American composers: Summon the Heroes by Academy Award winner John...
...opera craft. The writers also understood that soaps must always have, at their core, at least one pair of earnest lovers whose thwarted longing fuels the drama. Melrose has Billy and Alison, lovers too personalityless to be destined for any other. Last year we cared whether they would beat gargantuan odds--Alison's alcoholism, her affair with an N.F.L. sex addict--and find their way back into each other's hearts. This year Billy and Alison have been ripped asunder for so long we wouldn't care if they took vows of celibacy and joined the cast of Saved...
...unpredictable, since the very success of casinos can sometimes breed future failures when the market becomes oversaturated. Rock Island, Illinois, had to rebate more than three-quarters of a million dollars in gambling taxes when its casino revenues plummeted because of new competition from Iowa. In New Orleans the gargantuan hulk of a half-built casino, slated to be the world's largest, sits rusting on the edge of the French Quarter. The builder, Harrah's Jazz Co., is bankrupt, done in by an overly optimistic tax deal with the state. Louisiana Governor Mike Foster, once a gambling booster...
Buyers of mutual funds alone put $129 billion into the stock market last year, about $10 billion more than 1994's gargantuan inflow. By no coincidence, the Dow average jumped 33% during the year, surpassing both the 4000 and the 5000 levels; never before had two 1000 marks fallen in the same year. This January alone, mutual funds took in $33.3 billion in net new cash and invested $28.9 billion of it in stocks, 76% more than in December and 57% more than in January 1994, which had set the previous record. Result: the Dow climbed 10% from the start...