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...Hope you think slow motion photography is the coolest thing since Pez. Hack director Caton-Jones certainly does. He also thinks the hyena and the jackal are the same animal. In both cases, he is very, very wrong...
...that lose-your-lunch Monday 10 years ago this week when the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 23% and sent shrieks issuing from the canyons of Wall Street? A similar crash today would take the Dow from 8000 to 6160 in a single day. It would hack your mutual-fund balance from...
...mildly, highly schematic. The 7 Habits begat the three primary laws of love, which are not to be confused with the four primary laws of life. There are four unique human gifts and three common mistakes and...but who's counting? A reader who can hack through this verbiage will realize soon enough that it serves only to obscure old-fashioned notions that have sustained families since they first wandered out of the Serengeti. Think before you speak. Plan ahead. Try to see the other guy's point of view. Tell the truth. If you can't say anything nice...
...Hack and the others, snappily calling themselves the Yale Five, are threatening to sue Yale for discriminating against them on the basis of their religion. In this case, the form of the discrimination seems to be...temptation, temptation everywhere! There's a precedent at a public school: last year, in a little-noticed local ruling, a judge said the University of Nebraska had to allow Douglas Rader, a devout Christian fretting over the dorms' laxity, to live off campus. The Nebraska case was the first of its kind...
...Yale case will proceed as quietly. Yale has weathered several controversies in the past few years, most recently the contretemps over its refusal of $5 million to fund programs for gay students. And last week the Yale Five created something of a media juggernaut to get its message out. Hack wrote an op-ed for the New York Times, and the students went on TV and radio. "If you need my help," Harvard legal star Alan Dershowitz gushed on Court TV, "you can count...